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Thank you so much for watching, I'm so pleased that people like these historical profiles as I really love making them! Apologies for my mispronunciations- I'll pull out that 'deaf' card again in my defence 😉Who should I profile next? xxx
I would love to have an historical video on Rex Stout. I know he was raised in a Quaker family.
Did you mean to put master or matter in the title?
Ugh! President Bush. Blech! Love the video name. "Disabled Presidents Master". Maybe "Matter"?
Um, Bush is not dead./
reagan is currently burning in hell
My grandfather’s polio just came back, he’s 94 and contracted it in the 1930s and now he can’t walk. Vaccinate your kids.
TheImpiroGirl I’m not sure where you live but we no longer vaccinate against polio in the US due to it being eradicated. If you are younger than middle aged and an American, you are not immune to polio. Vaccinate your kids to prevent several other horrible diseases like hepatitis B and chicken pox and measles, mump, rubella. Get the Flu shot yourself yearly to protect the community from influenza.
My father also had polio and I learned years ago about PPS from a client of mine sister whom also had polio died of PPS. I worry about my father getting PPS on the regular now. And as you said about vaccines my dads words haunt me "I was so scared to end up in an iron lung", he was 5 that shouldn't be a fear of a 5 year old.
@@drcapt My kid just entered elementary and definitely got the polio vaccine (comment above about my dad is why I was aware), it is definitely still given out, it's part of the DTaP vaccine which is a 4 shot series. I'm in the US.
One of my mother's friend got polio at 9 months. She always walked with one leg and the other she dragged. I was vaccinated and so was my teen. It is still a regular vaccine where I live.
Emily Capt we most definitely still vaccinate against polio in the US. That is why it is eradicated. It can easily come back the more people stop vaccinating, just like other diseases.
You probably came across this in passing reading about FDR's illness, but there is a very convincing theory that Roosevelt actually had Guillian-Barré syndrome, not poliomyelitis. He became a champion for polio rehabilitation, and his circumstances wouldn't really have changed at that time regardless of which he had, but it's an interesting subject.
I was going to point this out too!
I didn’t realize this thank you for sharing!
Yeah, there's been a lot of controversy over what happened to FDR. There's also a lot of interesting discussion regarding his health during the election of 1944. Some records suggest that he was aware of how quickly his health was declining and that he knew that he wouldn't make it far into the term.
JFK also had Addison's Disease. It was the tanned skin and auburn hair that was the side effect of the disease that helped him win the Presidency because people thought it made him look healthier. He was very ill and on steroids often. I love your videos! 💙
and he had gotten "last rights" like twice....
@@Butterflier00 I think part of that was the shock of his wife and the somewhat choatic series of events following his death. Even if not technically timely I hope those last rights gave comfort to his wife
*rites...
(Sorry-not trying to be rude.)
@@watermelonwishes4193 I'm not a native speaker and what you did here actually helped to understand the original comment, so thanks.
Abraham Lincoln is actually now thought to have Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2B (MEN2B) instead of Marfan Syndrome. In other news, February is Marfan Syndrome Awareness Month!
I loved this video! For what it's worth, I think Eleanor deserves her own video. A champion of Civil Rights, and involved UN official, and she had a decades-long relationship with another woman, Lorena Hickok (their letters are now public). She even started a furniture company with another lesbian couple- Val-Kill Industries. Super fascinating woman.
Eleanor deserved to be happy: she was married to Franklin
I'm studying the US presidents for my history a-level, so this definitely counts as revision.
Of course!.....
I find that learning cool interesting things on topics related to your field of study can really help you stay interested in said field. So it is beneficial, even if you won't get tested on it!
Your 17 year old mother who does boy k ow anything about you says this is an acceptable form of revision
@@emmajent267 lies are lies regardless of whether you like it
Honestly, the fact that you know the House and Senate are separate things puts you ahead of many born in the US...
I still have no idea what either of them are, let alone the difference. And I have lived in the US my entire life...
This is sad but true.
However, they are both functionally the same: fucking useless unemployment benefits for several ridiculously out of touch prostitutes to corporate greed.
@@WowUrFcknHxC I understand your dislike for the government but... you're using unemployment and prostitutes as derogatory terms.. sometimes it's better to skip the analogy and just say what you mean.
@@IvyCheang my intent was to equate then with the people they look down on. It wasn't an analogy.
@@WowUrFcknHxC I'm not sure a sex worker would view it that way. Unemployment = lazy and prostitute = sell-out are unfortunately a very popular narrative. I believe that you don't intent to insult anyone, but people can take offense and be hurt all the same.
Both the House of Reps and the Senate are representative bodies of Congress. The HOR members are elected and the number of representatives per state is determined by the states population. Bigger states = more house seats. The Senate is two seats per state and they serve for longer terms. Basically the founding fathers couldn’t agree on how to divvy up seats, so they did both ways.
really? I would have thought they'd do both to represent both the nation's wishes and individual state's wishes
@@jh5401 basically it's that way so that there is a place where states with more people have more influence (house of representatives) and a place where each state is represented equally regardless of population (the Senate).
@@jh5401 No in theory there really only supposed to do things in line with the people who elected them, so the people of their state/ the district within that state.
Thomas Jefferson even felt that it wasn't moral for a politician to vote against the wishes of the people who elected them. So the people they directly represent.
We also forget one kinda important thing. The entire State votes for the 2 senators. When voting for Representatives you only get to vote for the representative in your district. So like a state might have 20 Representatives but you only vote for the one to that represent your area.
Also quick add on. For explaining this to a child explanation.
The US has 3 branches of government.
The legislative branch which is Congress and broken into the House of Representatives and the Senate.
The executive branch the president.
And the judicial branch the Supreme Court.
To add some more detail, a bill can be introduced in either house*. Once the bill goes through the process of debates, amendments, and a final vote, it is sent to the second house. If the second house doesn't vote for it then the bill dies. If the second house approves it without amendment, then it has passed congress. If the second house approves it but adds its own amendments then it is sent back to the originating house to be voted on again and possibly for new amendments to be added. Bills can be ping ponged back and forth for quite a long time. After the bill has been approved by both houses in its final form, it has passed congress. The bill will be law unless the president vetoes it. Although vetoes can be overridden by a vote of two thirds of both houses.
TLDR: To become law, a bill has to be approved by the senate and house of representatives, and not be vetoed by the president
extra note: both the senate and house of representatives are "houses" of congress but the house of representatives is often referred to as "*the* house".
*actually bills which create taxes or otherwise raise revenue have to originate in the house of representatives.
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ruclips.net/video/FFroMQlKiag/видео.html
In summary "I'm just a bill" not sure if it has subtitles from 1970's.
FDR: "we gotta get out of the great depression. Depression isn't good for healing vibes"
I love learning about disabled people of the past, but so many people automatically bring these people to arguments 'they overcame their disability, why can't you' (FDR is often brought up for this - just try harder and you can walk) which is so frustrating as a disabled person as it implies it's our fault for not trying hard enough to fix our disabilities (many of which can't ever be cured), and choosing to be scroungers.
FDR also COULDN'T WALK either
They say that as if the average disabled person has FDR money and FDR family support.
FDR is one of my favorite presidents! Great video as always! You should look into the possible queerness of his wife, Eleanor. She was also the first US representative at the United Nations! A truly amazing woman.
JESSICA: "Don't judge me. I'm deaf! And I will play that card whenever I need to."
ME: Jessica ... FTW! 😉
Thank you for the history lesson, Jessica. You are so right! Growing up and attending school in the United States, this information was never taught or spoken about. Textbooks mysteriously omitted any mention of physical or mental illness that would dare put these 'mighty' men in a negative light. Too bad, because having this knowledge would only go to show the strength, fortitude, and determination these people had in reaching the height of public service in this country 🇺🇸
I truly appreciate your video on this subject. Your work in gathering and arranging all this information, and presenting it in an easy to understand manner is so incredibly helpful. And it can assuredly inspire any and all those who live with disabilities realize they have all the potential to achieve their goals and dreams. Thank you!
Lovely as always 👍🤟💝
My school all but ignored anything besides the disability with FDR but was just as you said with anyone else. I am glad that I had one history teacher who would go off book but stay within the required curriculum for my state to make sure we had a bit more understanding of the reality of our country than the textbooks would leave with us. She took a few days out of the WW2 curriculum to teach us about the internment camps we had, with the civil war she told us some of the less desirable qualities of Abraham Lincoln's beliefs, she showed us RUclips videos of popular hate groups to prove that hate groups still existed(this was in the early 2000s when RUclips was less strict/popular so people got away with posting horrible stuff easier), with the cold war she taught us about the massive amounts of fear mongering, "duck and cover," why the McCarthy trials were so complicated, the French revolution lessons involved a discussion about the debates that went on over the use of the guillotine.
*shout out to all of the American history teachers who teach actual history and in a way that doesn't get them fired so they can continue to do so*
@@helRAEzzzer Good for that teacher! Sounds like you received a more well- rounded picture of historical figures and events. My middle and high school years were in the mid to late 90s, so unfortunately the technological advances and the instantaneous availability of information that exists today was most certainly not present. I had to scavenger hunt in my local library for books that gave broader and more in depth perceptions of people and events in history. Besides that, it was limited info textbooks and teachers who seemed content with the confines of said textbooks.
You should do a Historical Profile on Rosemary Kennedy, JFK’s Sister
I agree! Rosemary Kennedy had such a sad life but theres value in sharing her story
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Vi Merveilles right! And the more I learn about it, the more I see it’s almost a Bittersweet story. We need to talk about her more!
See her vid on lobotomy.
@@camilledvorak7151 Oh thanks! I’m glad she made a video about it!
This made me feel more patriotic than anything that has happened in my country in 3 years. ❤️
Ditto....but we’d have to go back to the 70’s and the Carter administration.
This made me feel more patriotic than anything that has happened, ever lol. 🦽🇺🇸🏳️🌈
This is a catch-22 for me. JFK had Addison's disease (adrenal insufficiency). I also have it and people judge me based on him, even though every autoimmune disease can present differently. "If JFK can be president then why can't you work?"
Rachel Thiede First, that’s really none of their beeswax but tell them that JFK was on a lot of meds (speed included, I believe) before doctors knew the danger. So you wouldn’t be treated with the same drugs even if you asked.
@@Lauren-ds3vw thanks hun. I'm pretty good at defending myself, but I normally avoid discussing my health in general, unless it's with doctors. Doctors often will do some kind of comparison as well which is horrid. And yeah I'm sure he was on lots of good stuff- As a woman of color I could only imagine being treated so well lol!
JFK could be president and do all of the active things that he did because he was on copious doses of illegal drugs. Tell people that next time they try to compare you two 💜💜💜
And believed that universal healthcare was a human right as he emphasized and praised the British system of healthcare as a highlight of why America needed to reform itself. Don't believe me? Watch this:
ruclips.net/video/14A1zxaHpD8/видео.html
Jessica! Thank you so much for doing this video. FDR and Eleanor are my favourite President and First Lady. Even as a child in the 90s, we didn’t learn that he was disabled. In 2001, his (and Eleanor’s!) memorial was updated in DC and I saw him for the first time in his chair. It was incredibly moving to see him, the man behind the Fireside Chats, the New Deal, and the basis for the “First hundred days” measurement of the US President, in such a powerful place: his chair.
Worth mentioning: George Washington was well-aware of the need for written and spoken communication to sway congress and the public for the cause. He managed to land Alexander Hamilton to do those things instead, because Washington was a talented general and his skills were best served elsewhere. I’m glad their partnership benefited both of them.
I love you sooo much! Can you make more videos on dyslexia?
Jessica: "no one cared about stupid old spelling"
Me doing gcses: "if only that was still true"
"Which, can't lie, as a Brit, still a little fuzzy on what the difference is there, please explain to me like I'm a child!"
I have been to the Roosevelt “cottage” having been raised in New Brunswick. It is a beautiful (and yes large) cottage on a lovely property.
According to the constitution, the only requirements are that you must be 35 and born in the US. So if people are willing to support you, you can be elected.
Sacara well you have to have lived in the US for at least 14 years
Yet still no lady presidents. Come on America
According to my history class, one of the people that "ran" in the early 1900s (I don't remember the year, but I believe it was the year Taft was elected) as an independent candidate was in jail at the time. (I say "ran" in quotations because my history teacher thinks he wasn't totally aware that he had been nominated)
Amanda Kropp enough people + the electoral college have to vote for you. And there’s enough bigots in America that wouldn’t vote for a woman that it hasn’t happened yet unfortunately
The House of Representatives and the Senate are the two chambers of Congress. It is similar to the two chambers of Parliament. They came to be due to the Missouri Compromise; large states wanted government representation based on state population where small states wanted equal numbers of representation regardless of population size. The MO Compromise is accompanied by the 3/5 compromise that determined that large states (typically states that were part of the Confederacy) wanted to count their slaves as part of their population so they could have more government representation but not part of the population they had to pay taxes on. Therefore they created the 3/5 compromise that stated 3/5 of the slave population would count for both representation and taxation. Back to the chambers, The House of Representation allocates seats based on state population size. The Senate allocates two representatives per state; 100 senators, 2 from each state.
I should have scrolled down some more before typing mine 🤦🏽♀️😂 Well said!
And then all the 3/5ths crap was done away with via the 14th Amendment in 1868.
But our House of Representatives is why the Census is so important, especially for 2020. It's what will determine number of reps per state and for the Electoral College, determine voting districts, determine funding allocations, etc.
It was actually the Great Compromise (the MO Compromise was ratified in the 1820s about slavery in the western territories). But good job!
I teach US Government and have a Masters in US History.
You got some of your historical information jumbled, but this still a great teachable moment!
The creation of the House of Representatives and the Senate predate the Missouri Compromise by decades (1820) and it didn't establish the two chambers of Congress.
The Constitution (1789) created a lower chamber (the House of Representatives) and an upper chamber (the Senate).
The members of the House of Reps. Are elected by the people for two year terms and the number of representatives a state gets is determinated by the state's population, which helps bigger states. This chamber was envisioned as the branch of government that was supposed to more effectively reflect the will of the American people. The Senate was originally established to reflect the will of the individual states and function as a more level headed/moderate chamber with senators serving six year terms. Each state gets two senators no matter is population which helps smaller states. Originally senators were elected by the legislatures of each state and not the people. The 17th Amendment (1913) to the Constitution changed the election of senators from being appointed by the state legislatures to a popular vote by the people of the state similar to the election of Representatives.
You got the basics of the 3/5 Compromise down, but it had nothing to do with the Confederacy since this compromise was written into the Constitution back in 1789, seventy years before the American Civil War. The 3/5 Compromise only applied to the House of Representatives and did disproportionately help the southern states since the compromise allowed slaves to be counted as 3/5 of a person when determining the population of a state and its allotment of Representatives in the House.
Mike Osbourne good to know!
Lovely look at disabled presidents. My dad did tell me of a few of them though not everyone including FDR, in fact a lot about FDR. Though this disease of polio was considered a child's disease I know for a fact that it came in epidemic waves and adults did contract it more often than now thought mostly they did not survive it, as it often attacks the weakest point like the lungs or heart. My aunt was 6 when she contracted polio and in their area of the NW she and 1 boy were the only ones who didn't die and this included a lot of children, teens and adults.
Being dyslexic myself I wave the legal blind, which I am also, card when I mess up.
I love watching ur videos. I’m disabled also and am having one of those days. I’d love to leave my bed but my body says, oohhh no no no no, we shall stay here today. N e ways thank u for the education and laughs. Mg and lupus won’t keep me down.
You've got this!
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Didn't know much about FDR beyond the fact that he had polyo and an amazing wife, but I'm glad I do now!
I love your hystorical profiles
FDR and Eleanor are favorites of mine. I absolutely believe that they loved each other, though Eleanor was definitely LGBTQ+, and I also believe FDR knew. Just my personal opinion. Thank you for sharing this. I love your historical videos!
The quick and dirty:
House of Representatives = each state gets a number of representatives proportional to the population of that state.
Senate = each state gets exactly two representatives.
The HoR is considered the "lower" house and the Senate is considered the "upper" house.
The whole thing was based on a compromise between the founding fathers who wanted the BIG states to have more clout and those who wanted equal representation among all the states. So we got both. Which...works? *shrug*
I'm not entirely sure how they arrived at 435 representatives for the House, but....here we are. 538 in total (House + Senate + 3 for the District of Columbia).
There's a lot of detail I'm leaving out, but that's it in a nutshell.
It started off as 1 representative for each 30,000 people in a state and they kept adjusting the number of Representatives as the population of the nation changed, but in the early 1900's they capped it because it was getting too big to be an effective legislative body
@@idunno966 THERE we go. I knew it was something, but those neurons are probably being used for remembering the lyrics to Gilligan's Island or something. :) Thanks!
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The House of Representatives also has six non-voting members representing Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia!
Originally Senators were selected by the State governments, not directly elected. This was changed by the 17th Amendment in 1913.
The Roosevelt’s cottage had only 34 rooms, 6 of which were bathrooms, so they really were roughing it during the summers.
I had an argument with my mom about this topic, glad there's content on it now!
My brother's retina detached! He got surgery and can see again, mostly, vision's still coming back. He has a lot of issues with his eyes.
Fun fact! FDR is one of my ancestors, he was my great grandfathers cousin.
I knew FDR was fairly impressive but wow! Thank you for this Jessica. I have learnt so much! The history of attitudes of disabled people about their own disabilities is seriously understudied; we need more educational and scholarly material like this ^^ 💕
I know you did one on Anne Listed but her wife Ann Walker suffered with awful physical and mental health ( her family called her invalid and she attempted suicide at one point) it would be amazing to see something on her.
The last time I was this early, FDR was still president.
Love your historical videos! Thanks so much for this. As an American, we did learn a lot about how FDR had polio, and was in a wheelchair (high school in the 80s). Our teacher showed how clever he was to hide his disability, which as you stated, was not acceptable, and many people in the country had no idea that he couldn’t walk (no TV, social media, etc, obviously helped.). Also, Woodrow Wilson, we learned, was so debilitated by his stroke, that his wife essentially ran the country for some time, something the US people had no idea about until many decades later. Additionally, Ronald Reagan was suffering from dementia in his later years as president, and apparently Nancy was running things as well...perhaps with the assistance of her astrologer...eek! Anyway, love your videos, especially the historical ones and those talking about disability as I have recently become disabled myself. I love that quote from FDR, very inspirational for me!
"Boxing. Why do that?" A question I ask myself all too often 🤦
Honestly, I think most Americans can hardly name a handful of our presidents. And they will probably throw Benjamin Franklin or Thomas Edison in there.
Charles Rich My 5th grade teacher made the whole class memorize all the presidents’ last names (EX: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, etc.) in the Yankee Doodle song. This Yankee Doodle President song was named, “The presidents song” and to prove that we knew the song, we had to sing individually in front of the whole class, I still remember my embarrassing singing voice and all my other classmates voice cracks 😂.
or alexander hamilton....
@@hithere324 the animaniacs actuallly have a presidents song. and it has a little factoid about them.
I used to list the presidents in order to help me fall asleep at night when I was a kid. That was back during the Reagan administration.
TehMomo lol I never knew that, I heard it, it was catchy
Brit-friendly translation of House vs Senate: like the House of Commons vs House of Lords, respectively, but Senate is also elected, albeit for a longer term (6 years, rather than 2 for Representatives). The US system of bicameral congress/parliament was designed to address population imbalances for state representation; Representatives are apportioned by state population, while each state gets two Senators regardless of size. Bills have to clear both bodies to move forward on the path to becoming a law.
I’m Australian, and we have the same Lower House/Senate kind of setup. Basically, we have a “Washminster” system, in that it’s a mashup of British and American political systems.
So- the Lower House (House of Representatives in the US) is made up of representatives from each seat in each state. Basically they divvy each state up into separate electorates, and then vote for one person to represent them (its the same as in the British Lower House, I believe, where it’s based on seats).
The Senate is a number of representatives from each state, and the entire state votes on them, as opposed to running in a particular seat. The point of the Senate is to protect the rights of each state. In Australia we have 12 senators per state, in the US (which has many more states), they have 2. That’s the idea at least, in practice.... people tend to stick with the parties they’re in, as opposed to simply representing the state they’re from.
But it’s this whole thing about balancing powers, where while the federal government does overrule the states, the states still have rights, and the power to govern over certain issues (in Australia, its set out exactly what the federal government is allowed to make laws about, and everything else is a state issue).
So the idea is: the lower house represents communities, and the senate represents states. And then the executive (which is actually separate in the US but isn’t in Australia, given our weird mashup system), is supposed to represent the entirety of the country (which is also why the electoral college makes no sense- it should be a straight popular vote. “But what about the flyover states? They need to protect themselves!”- that’s what the House of Reps and the Senate is for. Get rid of the damn thing, it makes no sense and is inherently undemocratic)
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There are only a handful of US presidents that Americans can name as well tbh lmaoo
Theodore Roosevelt was also shot in the chest, bullet slowed by his eyeglass case and the thick stack of notes and lodged in his chest wall muscle. After determining that the bullet didn’t hit anything vital, he went on to give a 90 minute speech BEFORE he allowed his aides to take him to the hospital. The bullet remained in his chest until his death, many years later
Another story you might find interesting. Woodrow Wilson, who was president from 1913 to 1921, suffered a massive stroke that incapacitated him. He was partially paralyzed and blind in one eye as a result, but also took a long time to recover, so he was sequestered by his doctor and his wife, Edith. She secretly took over running the country during his recovery, and is thus known by many historians as the first unofficial female president of the United States. There's a great episode of the excellent podcast More Perfect about this: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolabmoreperfect/episodes/most-perfect-album-episode-7
This is an excellent video about American history and our disabled president. I am disabled, my mother had polio, my father had depression and physical disabilities, and we all have achieved many things that others wouldn’t believe we could do! It is so important to recognize what we can do, what we can accomplish, if we’re given the chance and if not, we take the chance anyway! Empowerment is such a tremendous force, it can overcome even the most tremendous challenges anyone could face. Empowerment starts with this first, telling ourselves, “I can!”
I work at a Wilson museum and I often talk about Wilson’s challenges learning to read and once I had a lil girl who was dyslexic on the tour and she was so excited that someone like her became President. I felt bad when I had to tell her “also, unrelated to that, he was a huge segregationist 😢 “
Thank you so much for talking about this! It's great to hear about the variety of disabilities that the presidents have had, whether those disabilities are usually recognized or not. Personally, I've been familiar with FDR's disability since I was very young, since my mother pointed it out whenever he was talked about on tv.
Both of her parents contracted polio when an epidemic passed through their area in 1950, when my mother was a toddler (she had me late, I'm Jessica's age). What Jessica didn't mention in the video is that yes, polio was usually contracted in childhood, but when it did/does occur in adults it has a much higher chance of being very severe. In the end, my grandfather was left paralyzed from the waist down, similar to FDR, but in my grandmother's case, her lungs were affected and she didn't survive. I never had the chance to meet either, as my grandfather also passed away shortly before my parents got married, but pointing out FDR's disability was always a chance for my mother to talk about her parents and make sure my sister and I knew what they had gone through.
Fun fact! Using one near sighted contact and one distant contact is a very common way to correct vision for those who would usually need verifocals. Some people don't get on with this but a large number of people get on with it fine as your brain just works out what to do!
At the FDR memorial in Washington DC, there are two statues of him. In one he is sitting in a wheelchair like the one he used, in the other he's sitting down with a cloak draped over his chair and if you go behind it you'll see casters on the back. The second one also has a statue of his dog Fala next to him.
Eleanor was the more fascinating of the Rosevelts. She was a force of nature. She was a unique woman. Very smart, very interesting, while supporting her very intelligent husband.
Possibly the most interesting 1st lady in the history of America. She was a great supportive partner and a well rounded woman.
Possibly a lesbian? We know for a fact she had a very long personal history with at least one woman
In my woman history class in college we learned that she stayed loyal to her husband even though he cheated on Eleanor with her best friend multiple times.
During the Philadelphia Convention, the states with large numbers of people wanted the number of representatives in the national legislature to be determined by population. States with small amounts of people worries that the large population states would outvote them all the time, so they wanted representation to be equal for every state. They ended up compromising by doing both: The House of Representatives is based on population, and the Senate has equal number (2) for each state.
A lot of comments I've seen have explained the two chambers of the US Congress primarily based around how many people are in each chamber so I will go into a bit more detail while also trying to keep it simple.
The House of Reps is the "lower" chamber. It is where bills get introduced, debated upon, and then voted on. Once a bill passes the House, it goes to the Senate or "upper" chamber. The bill gets debated and voted upon again and only if both chambers pass the bill does it go to the President to be signed into law. If the President vetoes a bill, then it gets sent back. It can either be changed and sent to the President again or if both chambers vote with a 2/3 majority it becomes law (veto override).
There are small groups within each chamber called committees. These groups are focused on legislation that relates to their committee (so the Education and Labor committee focuses on developing legislation on education and labor related issues). Once a committee has a piece of legislation ready it can be added to the agenda (just a list of items to be covered) of the House.
In the case of impeachment, the House declares that they are looking into it. They hold hearings and question people. Once they gather information, the House then determines if they want to write up articles of impeachment. If they do write up articles, then it goes to the whole House to debate and vote whether to impeach or not. If the vote passes, the President is impeached. If impeached, the articles then get sent to the Senate and a trial is held in order decide if the President should be removed from office or not. The trial is similar to any typical civil trial except that the "jury" is made up of the Senate members.
One of my best friends growing up, her grandmother had polio as a child(teen?). She had to wear leg braces and use crutches to get around. I remember she had a special car w hand grips to control the brake and gas pedals. She lived a very full life.
Disabled people can do more than society thinks we can.
They're afraid we'll be better at ruling the world than they are!
[Strokes white fluffy cat.] 😈
@@ChrisPage68 Absolutely.
They're worried we'll put them to shame, or at least offer a steeper competition.
Society dehumanizes. All most are worried about is if you gotta jerb, or not.
Hey, my hyper-fixation on the American Governmental Structure came in handy!
Senate: 2 people per state, older age requirements, intended to be the more conservative or "serious" part of congress.
House of Representatives: number of representatives is based on each state's population, younger age requirements, intended to be more progressive/radical.
There are a variety of differences in what powers each have, but essentially, the House initiates things (bills and impeachments for example) and then those move to the Senate for ratification. If the Senate says no to something, the House can sometimes vote again to override them, but would require a much larger majority voting in favor.
(Hope this helped! And also you're amazing)
So early omg. Thanks for putting this up during my lunch break! :)
I'm probably one of the few who didn't need to Google marphin`s syndrome. I don't have it but researched it in school for a project
US Congress 101. We have two Houses of Congress, The House of Representatives, (there are currently a total of 435) are elected in varying numbers per state based on population. A large state like California has far more congressman in the HOUSE than say Wyoming. The other half of Congress is the Senate. Each state gets exactly 2 Senators. This is supposed to balance things out. Each state gets the same number of senators, and then states with more population get more House of Representative Congressman. They work together to pass laws. So for example, first the house creates a bill, debates it, votes on it, and then passes it then it goes to the Senate and they have to look it over, make changes, etc. And then they vote on it and it passes. Being a Senator is more "elite" and they are referred to as a Senator, While those in the house are referred to as Congressman or Congresswoman.
Thanks for making these videos! You've always helped me though the tough times and you don't fail to make me smile!!!
this was super interesting to someone who is going through some serious illness and disability struggles, thank you so much for making it!
Jessica yet again delivering exactly the video I need and ending on the perfect quote to keep me going
I love your videos, Jessica! Thank you so much for sharing all this research
Such a great video thank you so much for making it!
Love your history lessons. You’re an amazing teacher. 🥰🥰
Wonderful and uplifting video, Jessica!
I love u so much x u have such an amazing vibe keep on going and spreading love 😂❤️x
You are such a delightful person! You’ve cheered me up after a rotten day. Thank you
I already knew about FDR and his disability (Politics aside, I find his battle with polio to be very inspiring which is why he's one of my favourite US presidents) but I had no idea about JFK or any of the other Presidents you mentioned who also had disabilities of their own. Thank you for this video. It was super informative.
You inspire me Jessica! I just think you're the best
When I was reluctant to start a new medication my Dr told me that FDR took the same medication for his chronic illness when he was president to try to give me someone famous to relate to. She's used to talking to much older people than me so it is probably a good strategy for them.
@Hellena Rose oops your reply made me relies I misspoke I totally meant JFK not FDR...who had like Jesica said back issues but also Addisons disease and also some one who was alive and inspirational at the time of most of the other people visiting her office thus super relatable.
That was awesome and inspiring!
Just learned more than I ever have in any of my US history classes! Thanks! This was so cool.
That was highly entertaining! Thank you!
This is presented so delightfully.
I love these videos so much
This is wonderfully done.
Thank you for this video, you're my favourite youtuber!
Same here! I know I can always count on her videos to be interesting, uplifting, and well done. 💜
I know FDR had polio. That’s all however...
Senate: One part of Congress, two from each state.
House of Representatives: One from each county/region of the states. (I believe, it’s been a while since I was in school)
Rhiannon The number of representatives in the House is determined by the state’s population
Also, Senators have a six-year term (with only 1/3 of the Senate up for reelection every two years), and Representatives in the Congress have a two-year term, and the whole Congress is up for election every two years. When the U.S. Constitution was written, it was presumed that Senators would be mostly Wealthy Landowners, who would be more aloof and deliberative, because they wouldn't have to campaign as often, and Congressional Representatives would be more closely aligned with the "Common People." Also, any proposed law has to be voted on and approved by both the Senate and the Congress, and then signed by the President, before it goes into effect.
Becca Fox wow yeah i was way off lol
Capri-Omni ye! that part i vaguely remembered
@@rhiannon1833 not really. Once you figure out how many representatives a state gets, the state is split into districts.
I do love your history videos. I love listening to you speak! As well as seeing you ( and Claudia). Sending love ❤️!
Thank you for acknowledging dyslexia. Not many people knew it a developmental neurological condition where the reading/writing part of the brain is in the right frontal lob instead of the left temporal lob. People with dyslexia are often regarded as lazy or stupid. We just think differently, literally.
Thank you for making such calm and cheery content. I’m usually underweight and get sick easy as well and suffer from migraines. Sometimes when I’m sitting in bed at 4 am not about to sleep from being so nauseous I need to listen or watch something to keep my mind off my own anxiety. But it can’t be the normal high energy 24/7 content that most RUclipsrs put out there because most likely that will cause me to get motion sick… from sitting up in bed listening to a video… it sucks. BUT! Thank you for being the voice that drowns out the fears as I try and get my body to feel better so I can rest.
This is really interesting to watch in light of the recent wave of ableism surrounding the president, particularly the 'outrage' (whether real or performative) about a president hiding a potential disability
I have 2 learning disabilities and I remember when I figured that out (I am diagnosed, just that no one sort of added it together for me, wish it had been sooner) that yes I really am learning disabled, what a relief I felt and how much shame I had built up that I was able to let go of connected to how hard my entire school life has been.
Always ashamed by how much I struggled compared to the others
Now I don't and just that I kept up in a normal school feels like a slight achievement looking back. I always needed special lessons, learning therapy and periods with a special aid teacher but besides that, I never had to be pushed back a year tho it was suggested to me a few times
Thank you so much. Its so wonderful to see talented dyslexic role modelles, as well as capable disabled peoples journeys. I'm really struggling to see how my future might look after 5 years of serious injurys and health issues, and I just got told it will be another 3 years before I'm likely back on my feet. I know productivity isn't everything, and being able to be capable of achieving tasks isn't a given, but I'm inspired to look for more ways I can overcome this, it's so easy to see the limitations and takes a lot more effort to think laterally and adapt. I guess everyone goes through a bit of shock with the news of a diagnosis, so it's great hearing how historical figures got through. Any more on women, and brittish commonwealth folks? Xx
Love your historical profiles!
Thank you so much. Your video prompted me to see that dyslexic people are intelligent regardless of what the majority considers them to be. At the beginning of your video I felt the rush of anxiety that comes to a person with dyslexia when they hear another person utter the word. The mass majority of my mental health problems originate from self-loathing due to feeling stupid because I was reading too slow, writing too messy, and spelling too atrociously for my teachers' box. About half way through the video I paused and went on to an incognito tab (because I know I'll get to anxious if one of my family members find that I am searching something relating to dyslexia. Even though in reality it's not a big deal.) and searched what it is and what people think of it. And what I found makes absolute sense. it was quite literally me. Every single one of my quarks that I found to be a good think are positive results of dyslexia. Even what I'm doing now, which is telling a story. this is setting up a frame work of connections. like this is why I am good at geometry, geography, observations, making connections, compiling Ideas...IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW! so in conclusion (I basically just wrote an essay) thank you so much for helping me arrive at this realization! furthermore, I just realized that this video was uploaded on my birthday. hmmm??!! interesting
Jessica Kellgren-Fozard!
Thanx for this Beautiful historical profile.
Your presentation is so Gracious.
love
Steve Holliday
My favorite RUclips talking about one of my favorite presidents?! Yes, please!
My grandfather often would tell me stories of growing up during the Great Depression and all that FDR did to improve things for not only the average citizen, but those with disabilities as well here in the US. My grandfather got to see him talk from a convertible on a baseball field in 1936. As I grew older and became more politically aware, and medically of my own conditions, I grew to greatly admire him.
And Eleanor, of course, the badass bi first lady.
Yes, FDR's cottage is large: thirty-four rooms. The Roosevelt Campobello International Park website has photos of the cottage, and if you're ever in NB (where I'm from, and yes, I've toured the cottage several times), the park and cottage are worth a visit. www.fdr.net
The presidential airplane had an elevator built into the belly of the plane for FDR's use. It can be seen, along with some retired Air Force Ones at the Airforce Museum in Dayton, OH.
Thank you so much for this video. I love your history videos please don't stop. God, you are amazing. Love you and Claudia.
The House of Representatives is generally considered to be less prestigious than the Senate; you can run for it when you are only twenty-five and there are many more representatives than there are senators, due to the fact that the number of representatives that a state has is determined by population. Some states only have one representative, while others can have upwards of twenty. There are two senators for every state. The Senate and the House both vote to pass bills but they have different roles in the process of impeachment: the House can impeach presidents, while the Senate can hold a subsequent trial. The Senate has the sole power to approve or reject presidential appointments to executive or judicial offices. You have to be at least thirty to become a senator. That's the difference between the House of Representatives and the Senate.
I really enjoyed this video.
This made me feel kinda good about my country. Thanks Jessica!
I’d like to see you do a historical profile on Albert Einstein, focusing on his posthumous autism diagnosis. I’m autistic and I often use Einstein as an example when talking about myths about autism, and I’ve gotten pretty attached to him as a role model
A great video to end my night.
Fun fact, FDR likely didn't really have polio! His symptoms more closely fits GBS, but doctors at the time didn't consider it.
The House of Representatives is similar to the House of Commons, and the Senate is similar to the House of Lords, except they're elected rather than appointed. So every state gets a bunch of representatives (the smallest states get a minimum of 1 representative), but only two senators.
Also, fun fact, this means that less populous, rural states have more power in national government, because they get significantly more representation per capita than more populous states. It's the same with districts for the house of representatives. Also, electoral votes (because we don't elect the president directly, we vote for the president, which really just is a vote for electors, who then vote for the president, and the number of electors is based on the number of representatives a state has, plus two senators... it's complicated).
There's a good episode of Adam Ruins Everything about all this nonsense: ruclips.net/video/90RajY2nrgk/видео.html
Well said.
Senate has two people from each of the 50 states. House of Representatives the representatives cover a specific area of a state. It’s often a county, but it may be multiple counties (in less populated areas) or part of a county or counties (in highly populated areas like San Francisco or New York City). The Senate helps ensure that the smaller states have equal representation, while the House of Representatives allows the larger states/counties/cities have more say (because they are home to more people).
I’m 8 minutes in and I’ve only just noticed the ADORABLE art in the background😍☺️
AMAZING VIDEO
For anyone wondering, in the US gov. we have 3 branches. The executive (president), the judicial (supreme court, aka the people who decide if a law is just or not) and the legislative (the house and the senate). The house and the senators job is to create and vote in laws. It starts in the house than goes to the senate. The difference between them is that the house has representatives based on state population, meaning each state gets a certain number of representatives based on how many people live in that state, ie a state with a low population doesn’t have as many representatives as a state with a high population. In the senate, each state gets two representatives no matter the state size. I hope that makes sense.