How Do Laws Get Passed in the United States? - TLDR News

[@joaovitormatos8147]

Just a correction: the Departments are part of the Executive Branch, not a "fourth power"

[@michaelgreen1515]

Thank you

[@beausheffield1895]

Although the media is often considered to be an informal "fourth power".

[@ritemolawbks8012]

@@beausheffield1895 That makes sense to me now. I was always wondering what that Fourth Estate meant.

[@jamestanis3274]

I half expected this just to be a link to "I'm Just a Bill" :-)

[@armandoamaya8326]

Omg i was thinking the same thing!!!!

[@armandoamaya8326]

Im weak!!!!

[@lordgong4980]

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[@alcaldealer8515]

I thought I clicked on that link....

[@corwin32]

As a citizen, allow me: poorly, and at a snail’s pace

[@corwin32]

Matt Horkan I would agree with you up to a point; Washington described the Senate as “a saucer to cool the heat of the House”. That being said, it’s clunkiness causes us to react slowly (if at all) to issues that only the government is in a position to solve. It may be that it’s not a bug, it’s a feature, but it’s a poorly optimized, outdated feature. Also, query on whether the US has any claim on being “the oldest continuous government”. The US may be able to lay claim to being the oldest continuous democracy in the world, if you loosely define democracy.

[@Paranoid_Found]

gordon thomas the saucer analogy would be ideal only if the Senate wasn't as partisan as it is now

[@ThoriberoCaroli]

@@corwin32 Indeed, I'm not suggesting a better alternative, but the age of a thing does not a guarantee that it is good. The papacy has, with a skip of about 50 years and continually evolving, survived as a theocracy for more than a millenia, but that does not mean it is a good form of government. Not to mention the fact that a slowly acting government risks making the people turn to populists who promise to "get the job done", which in turn can produce a president (of any party...) who tries to use executive power to skip the slow standard legislation process. As an historian, it makes me think of the Roman republic a bit.

[@shaneanderson2775]

As an outsider, it seems like the US system has been around for a long time and is overly political and convoluted. It also appears to be outdated and not really fit for purpose anymore. Has anyone given any thought to modernising or revising it?

[@sirBrouwer]

@@Paranoid_Found for the US that could be resolved. as the biggest problem for the two chambers is that for most of the time both have the opposite party that has a absolute majority. it's very hard to get in to the middle. unless you would introduce a third political party. that way you go from a 51% 49% situation to a 49%, 49% and 2%. it means that if the bigger two agree the third party is not needed to get a majority. but if there is no majority between the two the third could give a party a party a majority breaking the stale mate.

[@AndreiDudaupersonal]

the Departments are part of the Executive Branch, not a "fourth power"

[@rhysblackmore1046]

CAN I GET A SCHOLARSHIP INTO THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE?

[@mikhelgomes6701]

No

[@ranvit1305]

Free college for everyone

[@joemurray3545]

I study A-Level politics and part of the course is on US politics, with a UK comparative element. Your content is great for my studies. Thank you!

[@maximus3543]

Joe Murray what is a level politics like, I’m year 10 but I’ve started thinking bout college and politics is definitely one that I’m interested in

[@olamsoevik]

The video about the electoral college should be done after the supreme court judgement about whether EC-members can vote against the popular vote.

[@samc125]

Can you do one for canada, Australia, England, Ireland, new Zealand

[@eshan_sandhu]

Already one for the UK on their main channel 👍.

[@michaelgreen1515]

I am sure I heard him say Queen Elizabeth lives in a Republic?

[@Matt-wc2mf]

A series of these would be great just for Americans to watch to learn how their own government works, but this hits a lot of the biggest points. Electorial College, the bureaucracy, how amendments are made, etc.

[@andrewsylvia7774]

4:40 - There's no "fourth branch." U.S. federal agencies are part of the Executive Branch.

[@TimwiTerby]

I would love to see a video outlining what kinds of laws can be federal laws and what is left up to the states. How is this defined/codified and who decides that in case of a dispute?

[@mitthugo2622]

I'd love a video on the 4th branch of government

[@Dominus_Potatus]

I've seen lots of political series in Netflix to know most of it.

[@Paranoid_Found]

Please do a video on the Electoral College after the upcoming Supreme Court case

[@raywatters9113]

I would love to see a piece on the difference between an Executive Order and an Executive Memo. One carries the weight of Law, the other states the direction the President want the Bureaucracy to act. The problem is, it has become very confusing because the President and the media tend to think these are the same things.

[@pahlkott]

Sec 8.18 is rarely used for authority to legislate by Congress. Much more often is the interstate commerce clause. The federal government does not have general police powers unlike Westminster. Those belong to the several states. So most broad spectrum legislation invokes interstate commerce in order to have authority. Lastly the US civil service is not a separate branch. They're an extension of article 2 powers.

[@AndreiDudaupersonal]

UK is not a republic. Is a constitutional monarchy.

[@foreachepsilon]

Constitutional amendments can overturn Supreme Court decisions as well.

[@samc125]

Electoral college vid

[@danielclifft9371]

The different departments are part of the executive branch, not any sort of 4th branch

[@AndreiDudaupersonal]

What's wrong guys. 5 minutes into the video and I've spotted 2 major mistakes. :?

[@onseonthebeat]

more on the bureaucracy, please!

[@horizonbrave1533]

I'd love to see a video discussing the direct correlations between what was experienced in England before the revolution, and how the framers took those experiences, and drafted the ideas of the constiution!

[@michaelgreen1515]

Making sure to remember that at the revolution nearly all British citizens didn't have the right to vote and still had to pay taxes!!!

[@Modgimus]

what the heck is an electoral college?

[@Mandemon1990]

A system where certain peoples votes don't count and certain peoples votes count more than others and which allows a candinate, who receives less votes, still become a president because of archaic system devised in the era where it took months to send a letter from one town to another.

[@Dominus_Potatus]

Basicly... Winner takes all, that's why in US you can have an executive that has different view from the congress

[@judychurley6623]

@@Dominus_Potatus ot accurate. Congress and President have different constituencies; House is by district, Senate by state, and President by the entire nation- mediated by the Electoral College, alas.

[@dkoda840]

​@@Dominus_Potatus No that is hella wrong, the Electoral College doesnt mean "winner take it"

[@Dominus_Potatus]

@@dkoda840 if you win the state, you get all the votes in the states. Well... i am not US Citizen, ao I might be hella wro, but that's just my general understanding

[@alejandromendez488]

* Looks at Title * Me: They don’t.

[@schris3]

The only thing both parties agree on is at the military industrial complex.

[@andrewsylvia7774]

1:28 - Pretty sure the UK isn't a republic......It's kind of hard to have a monarch and be a republic at the same time......

[@teaandtrumpets5664]

Do more US bureaucracy !

[@kevincronk7981]

Simple: they don't.

[@rommelr7]

Still prefer the 'I'm just a bill' song

[@ethanscheinman9616]

can we get a video on the bureaucracy’s

[@Bernardo_ng1994]

the US cabinet is not a bureaucracy, cabinet members are part of the executive branch, along with the president, vice president, and ambassadors, and anyone else appointed by the president to their job.

[@Ssargent888]

Really messed up when an American (myself) has to learn about our own government from a brit… and however embarrassed I am, I appreciate the video.

[@ElbowsOfWasps]

AND THAT'S HOW A BILL BECOMES A LAW

[@mathiashundstad8873]

Correction: there is another way to overturn a supreme Court decition! Although rare, a constitutional amendment could overturn s decition too, because if the decition regards if something is unconstitutional or not that would change

[@dalehawkins-lw6rc]

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[@casperes0912]

I think you meant representative democracy, not republican democracy

[@sirBrouwer]

@@williamwhisenant1494 being a republic only tells you that the head of state is elected and not born in to the position. (a monarchy). a democracy means that citizens with in that nation have a vote in who may speak on there be halve. The US in that way actual goes quite extreme in the democratic appointed system as in from the lowest level of government to the highest level and all with in can be voted on to some extend.

[@williamwhisenant1494]

Not true, Democracy means the people vote on the laws and the people vote on actions of the government through direct votes. A Republic is where the people elect representatives (not only head of state) to act on their behalf. The USA has very minimal democratic aspects and the majority of governance is through republican means.

[@williamwhisenant1494]

The election of our representatives (other than president) is through the democratic (direct vote) process, but that’s what a Republic is (in most cases). The USA is a democratic Republic (Republic bring the noun, democracy serving as the adjective further describing the noun) though if you want to get nit-picky we are a Federal Presidential Constitutional Republic (no democracy anywhere in there).

[@lol-xs9wz]

@@williamwhisenant1494 The US is by today's definition a representative democracy. The Founding Fathers' definition of democracy was different back then. And even they had wildly different opinions on democracy.

[@dkoda840]

The US is actually both, the US is a representative democracy, but also a republic.

[@Eunacis]

Could you do one of these for UK laws? I have trouble understanding how the Lords handle into it.

[@teelo12000]

The actual answer: They don't. The houses are controlled by opposing parties so they veto each others laws.

[@sirBrouwer]

there in lies also a possible solution. get a third party in both of the houses. so you break the absolute majority one both parties have on the other in the apposing houses. not in both houses a party rules when it has 51% (or more) of the total. if there would be a third party with at least 2% of the totality. it could force a stale mate to be broken. ether the two bigger parties have to work to gather to exclude the third. or one of the parties has to work with that third party to get something done. in a way that would make the smallest party very powerful for being so small.

[@GageEakins]

@@sirBrouwer Yeah that won't happen while we continue to have first past the post elections. Maine has hopefully started a trend to get rid of it and switch to the alternative vote system, but it deeply hurts conservatives, like many election reforms, so I won't hold my breath on it.

[@tparadox88]

They don't, not anymore.

[@ArtemPelenitsyn]

Tell more about the Electoral college!

[@ionnanskilliorus6877]

Do one on how amendments to the constitution happen.

[@HeadCannon19]

Did this man really just say that the United KINGDOM is a republic?

[@gl1500ctv]

I find it quite humorous that a Brit is having to teach Yanks about how laws are enacted in the colonies, when the process of enacting laws were established in response to a British monarch. Cheeky!

[@joearei]

"I'm Just a Bill"

[@jeffevarts8757]

A potentially important nit: The constitution does NOT specify the size of the supreme court. (The video indirectly implies that the size is fixed at nine) The president can appoint judges anytime he/she likes, effectively expanding the supreme court to any size they deem proper. Likewise, the president can decide not to replace a judge that leaves the court, effectively shrinking it.

[@judychurley6623]

1869, when a new Judiciary Act sponsored by Senator Lyman Trumbull set the number back to nine Justices. Roosevelt tried to pack the court in the '30s to get WPA passed, but attempt was defeated.

[@seraphina985]

@@judychurley6623 Still that's an ordinary act not the constitution though so congress could simply pass another one with a different number in it. In theory at least but still a lot easier to change than getting a constitutional amendment through.

[@johndeltuvia7892]

If you make a video about the Electoral College, please point out that it is the United States of America, not the United People of America - and therefore, it is the States that choose the President.

[@mekelius]

"They don't. Like and subscribe!"

[@Rialagma]

Ehh exactly what part of the UK is "republican"? Lmao

[@amylaneio]

Representatives (MPs) are elected to a legislative body (parliament) which makes laws. In a true democracy, every citizen would have a vote on every decision.

[@davidkaser7423]

How do laws get passed in America ? In the middle of the night, unread, and is mandatory they pass immediately ! Do the people vote on them ? no. That is how I see them getting passed.

[@kipuvi9181]

How do laws get Pasted in the United States? Me: No

[@lol-xs9wz]

Dude, why didnt you go further into detail how both chambers are composed? Plus, with this information you could have further explained how the Electoral College is composed? Put some more effort into your videos.

[@lol-xs9wz]

Really loved your Brexit stuff but that was shallow

[@Rocklahaulle]

Electoral College Video Plz

[@richy3417]

I'm just a bill... :)

[@richardadams7370]

Amazing that some UK kid gets it better than 90% of us Americans (is not the whole continent America?)

[@libertariantiger]

The video from school house rock is so much better

[@michaelgreen1515]

More bureaucracy and electoral colleges.

[@michaelgreen1515]

Might be nice given you said it is surprising that laws get passed at all for you make a video, about not just the system but what makes a law get passed... please.

[@mica720x]

How laws get passed congress. No.

[@TrabberShir]

This video is only 13 minutes long. It can not be trusted to get even half of the actually important steps.

[@TrabberShir]

Yup, perfect example: spending bills. In effect, that clause has no real impact on the modern congress because the senate can take a bill that is not going to pass the senate with no spending component (there is almost always a valid target for use) and replace all the text of it with a new spending bill then send it back to the house. For a great example of this, see the Affordable Care Act.

[@TrabberShir]

And then the claim that going to the floor without committee approval is an extreme case of glossing over details since more than half of acts of congress are passed without ever being referred to committee, see "Suspension of the rules" which happens once or twice a week.

[@Slay-R]

his voice sounds different. is he Ill or has he changed his Mic or something

[@amylaneio]

There's two guys that do these with very similar (but discernibly different) voices.

[@jeremiahp77]

Y'all are clearly left-leaning, however, you respectfully contain any biases which I greatly appreciate. I value all opinions, left, right and center. However, It is when the media lets their personal biases taint the message that I cannot stand (just the facts, not biased spin.). Y'all do a great job of sticking to the facts AND not letting your bias influence the message. Well done.

[@AstroBlakeD]

*cough* schoolhouse rock *cough*

[@samuelcarver1343]

Representative not republican democracy

[@michaeljeanbaptiste2587]

America got lucky with the red wave mirage. We got lucky, because we would have gone back a hundred years.

[@benmckenziesm]

Please can you do an opinionated video on the electoral system because it is so out of date and, in my opinion, should be obolished in the 21st century. Thanks

[@williamwhisenant1494]

Not at all! It protects against a plurality of idiots spread disproportionately across the nation. National popular vote is how Taco Bell becomes the nation’s best mexican restaurant

[@doriandougan3023]

I would like to know

[@kipuvi9181]

I have a supper tautly original comment: They don't

[@protohass]

Jimmy dore needs to watch this and hold onto the information because he's not knowledgeable on this

[@taoriq3632]

electoral college please

[@theoddparty3052]

Yes! Give us a very detailed review of the fourth branch including major media outlets and lobbying which allows money to leverage opinions.

[@jamestanis3274]

Umm.. This is a nit, but in the US, an important one. The department responsible for the *security* of the US is really the somewhat-new (formed after 9-11) Department of Homeland Security, with some security duties also being done by the Department of Justice. In particular, a law called Posse Comitatus (West Wing fans anyone? ) specifically forbids the US military from performing law enforcement duties within the borders of the US. The DoD deals with foreign threats (along with the CIA -- except I don't think anybody seriously believes the CIA truly limits itself to foreign-only ops).

[@seraphina985]

Arguably they are both forms of security just one deals with security threats from within and the other security threats from external sources. Also explains really why the DOJ comes into it as organised crime can graduate from being a local problem to a much bigger national threat if left unchecked.

[@abdulrahmanalajaji5899]

Why do you sound tired bro

[@ElliePetrova24]

a bit slow, this video. good topic though

[@hblaub]

Today: Very complicated Near future: Trump. Just Trump. Summary: Vote anybody else if you want to keep your constitution! Otherwise, you are going down the hill.

[@Midruto]

Comment 💯

[@casperes0912]

All this would, were it not so American, really please Sir Humphrey Applebee.

[@masterimbecile]

I'm just a bill. Yes, I'm only a bill. And I'm sittin' here on Capitol Hill.

[@vhartman66]

Forgot about “Lobbyist”, TRUMP ummantelst to System

[@nikitaplotnikov931]

1!

[@kelvinpang438]

2nd

[@Jack-tm4er]

ok this is kinda sad that it needs to be explained

[@utkarsharyan]

CAN I GET A SCHOLARSHIP INTO THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE?