Do senators represent a certain area like representatives do? Does like one represent a certain half of a state or something? Or are representatives the only ones that represent certain areas?
2007-02-14 05:34:29 · 20 answers · asked by Mandie 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
They represent the entire state
2007-02-14 05:36:35 · answer #1 · answered by LGT 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Senators represent the State
2007-02-14 13:36:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It depends on whether you're talking Federal or State government. I'm assuming you mean Federal. U.S. Senators represent their entire state. They're not limited to certain districts the way state senators are. Each state gets to elect two U.S. Senators. The idea behind it was to make all states, large and small, equal in voting strength. The founders counterbalanced this with the House of Representatives, where population determined how many representatives a state could elect. This ensured that the minority couldn't outvote the majority. Since bills had to pass both houses, both those who wanted a legislature based on population, so states with more people had more votes, and those who wanted all states equal ( the smaller,or less populated states) were satisfied. Thank you Ben Franklin! (our two-house legislature was his idea).
2007-02-14 13:53:25 · answer #3 · answered by texasjewboy12 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While senators represent the whole state, often they will come from different areas in the state, and are seen as MORE representative of that state.
For years NY used to have a senator from the city and one that was from up state.
Here in KS, one of our senators, Robertson, was a congressman for years, before becoming a senator. His congressional district was from the west side of the state.
He is seen as being more representative of that area than the eastern side, which is where Brownback is from.
2007-02-14 13:40:33 · answer #4 · answered by A_Kansan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Senators represent their states. Everyone in the state votes for them, so they represent the whole state. Every state has two of them, even though some states have much less people than others.
2007-02-14 13:38:23 · answer #5 · answered by Isaac C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Each senator represents the whole state. There is no real distinction between the two senators of a state, other than being two different people.
2007-02-14 13:37:38 · answer #6 · answered by Joy M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Senators and Representatives both represent their state.
2007-02-14 13:42:35 · answer #7 · answered by Fenician 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are 2 senators per state and both rep the whole state. representatives rep different districts of a state, and the number of reps per state is based on population, but the numer in the House of Representatives remains the same 435 members. and each state must have at least on rep. confused? ask a government teacher or surf the web.
2007-02-14 13:42:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are two senators in each state that each represent the whole state. if you are asking whether one senator has half of the state and the other has the other half then the answer is no.
2007-02-14 16:02:31 · answer #9 · answered by Reid G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Senators represent the whole state.
2007-02-14 13:37:01 · answer #10 · answered by Retired From Y!A 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋