How Representative is Congress?
Thinking about Congress, what is meant by “representation?” Do you believe that the U.S. Congress is representative of people like you? Why or why not?
Background Materials
1. OpenStax, Chapter 11
https://openstax.org/books/american-government-3e/pages/11-introduction
2. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Political Representation.”
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/political-representation/
3. Legistorm, “Congress by the Numbers”
https://www.legistorm.com/congress_by_numbers/index/by/house/mode/age/term_id/65.html
Do you believe that the U.S. Congress is representative of people like you? Why or why not?
