prestige - ✔️✔️senate: whole state
house: 1 rep per district
functions of congress - ✔️✔️spending
impeachment
determine rules
congress - ✔️✔️elections state-based
each house settles its own disputed elections
secretary of state - ✔️✔️puts laws in
certifies elections
Congress immunity - ✔️✔️from arrest while in session (excluding treason, felony,
breach of peace)
from speech/debate
Section 8 powers - ✔️✔️necessary and proper clause (elastic)
maryland- if you tax it you can control it
power to tax involves the power to destroy
House of Representatives - ✔️✔️435
200 republican
234 democrat
1 independent
Senate - ✔️✔️100 members
53 republican
45 democrat
2 independents
house apportionment - ✔️✔️by population
700,000 per district
each state Constitutionally guaranteed 1 seat (Alaska, Delaware, Montana, N+S
Dakota, Vermont, Wyoming)
5 delegates from protected territories - ✔️✔️can't vote
American Samoa
DC
Guam
Virgin Islands