Congress is the name given to the two bodies of the legislative branch. These are the Senate and the House of Representatives. Together they make the body called Congress. The main job of these bodies is to write and pass laws that are sent to the president to sign or veto.
Ultimately it helped create the US, so the then colonists in general benefited.
The second one because its talking about the presidential type senate and the first is talking about what the name of a lawmaking assembly.
The Virginia House of Burgesses established in 1619 is considered the first representative assembly (government) in the US and the Americas.This is without regard to the councils of Native Americans that preceded the arrival of the Europeans. Congress in 1988 especially noted the contributions of the Iroquois nations to the concepts of the US Constitution.
The North Carolina General Assembly with a 50 member Senate and a 120 member House of Representatives.
Which political party controls the U.S. Congress?
they are al around different
Yes
They are bicameral, they both pass laws, but the va general assembly does NOT enforce laws
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The Maryland General Assembly
A major difference between the Illinois General Assembly and the U.S. Congress is how the number of senators are determined. In the Illinois General Assembly, senate districts are formed by combining two House districts. This means that there is one state senator for every state representative. In the U.S. Congress, there is two senators for each state regardless of size and population.
The United States does not have any body called the general assembly. The US Congress is a legislative assembly with two houses, called the House of Representatives and the Senate. One might think of the House as a general assembly. The first Speaker of the House was Frederick Muhlenburg . The first president of the Senate was the vice-president, John Adams. John Langdon was the first president pro tempore of the Senate.
The Delaware General Assembly has a 41 member House of Representatives and the state has one member of the US House of Representatives.
The people
No, the proportion of minorities in the US Congress does not match the proportion of minorities in the general US society. Minorities are underrepresented in Congress compared to their share of the population.
That is the lower house of the US Congress called the House of Representatives.