"... [T]he House of Representatives was built with two-year terms for a reason: to be the barometer that measures both the pressures on the public and the pressures exerted by the public. At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, James Madison favored a three-year term, but the delegates settled on two years, in part, as Roger Sherman of Connecticut was quoted in the official notes of the proceedings…[more] |
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—David Shribman,Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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