POSC 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cloture, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Divided Government
28 Mar 2017
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Representative: a person chosen to make policy decisions on behalf of a defined group of people. Constituency: the people who choose a representative to act on their behalf. The unrepresented (send nonvoting delegates to the house of representatives: washington, dc. See our voices: nonvoting delegate eleanor holmes norton and. Representation for washington, dc : commonwealth of puerto rico, territories: american samoa, guam, northern mariana islands, and virgin islands, the populations of these unrepresented areas are largely made up of racial and ethnic minorities. Districts: reapportionment: allotting representation based on population after each census. 1910: u. s. house of representatives capped at 435 members. Increasing numbers of racial and ethnic minorities in the us house of representative since 1992. Political party: mass organization that seeks to elect candidates to public office and influence policy making: republican, democrat. Political parties are the primary point of organization in congress: majority party, minority party.
