The People's House

The People's House

::"For other uses see People's Houses (disambiguation)"The People's House is a colloquial term used to describe the institution of the United States House of Representatives.

The term comes from the populist characteristics of the House: smaller representative districts, shorter terms of office for its members and (perhaps most importantly) direct election by the people. The House of Representatives was the only branch of the Federal government to be directly elected by the people until ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913, when the Senate was made a directly-elected body.

The United States Capitol building, where the House of Representatives meets, is sometimes referred to as "the People's House," as well.

In the U.S. state of Vermont the state house is also called "the People's House."


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