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The United States' Congress is perhaps one of the most powerful legislative Assemblies' in the world.
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The United States' Congress is perhaps one of the most powerful legislative Assemblies' in the world. It is an "active" assembly, as described by M Mesey, by being wholey independent of the other branches of government through the entrenched separation of powers, has the power to actually make law. Under the constitution Congress is tasked with a number of responsibilities, these are making legislation, scrutinising the executive, and having control over fiscal matters. Prior to 1930 Congress was the main policy and law making body in the United States, with the President occupying a more symbolic role as the Founding Fathers had envisaged. However with the election of the Frank Rosevelt in the 1932 it was Congress which was to adopt a passive role. In the first hundred days FDR had secured emergency powers cementing his position as truely head of Government, not just head of state, as he pushed through...
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