help...question on our government?

Question

Can someone explain how the US government is organized? whats the senate? whats the house? who is a congressman? who is a governer? i don't get it.

Answer 1

the US government is separated into three branches of goverment that theoretically ensure a balance of power. These branches are the legistislature (house & senate), exectutive (president) and the judicial (supreme court).

Each branch is designed to work independent of one another, though at the same time work with each other to create laws, implement policy and to interpret the constitution through the judicial process.

A governor is similar to the executive branch, but for a state.

Congressman are those who are elected to the House of Representatives and Senators are those who are elected to the Senate. Each state is represented by 2 senators for a total of 100. The number of representatives from each state to the House is determined by its population. The House and Senate were both created to ensure equal representation of all states, without favoring larger states.

The House of Representatives writes legistlation (laws). But before they are made into laws, the Senate must vote on a 51-49 majority to pass it into law and the president must sign the law to become official.

Hope this helps!