The congress is made up of many
different kinds of committees. One of these committees is a standing committee,
which is best described as a permanent subject-matter committee. In total, there
are 20 standing committee in the House of Representatives, while there are 16
in the senate. Most bills sponsored to the congress receive consideration in
the standing committee under whose jurisdiction the matters contained in the
bill fall. Usually the congress follows the recommendations of the standing committee
on the fate of a bill.
The South was fighting a defensive war. The confederates prefer a defensive doctrine to defeat the numerically superior Union forces and to invite foreign powers especially Great Britain in their side thus winning the war against the Union forces in the American civil war.
Referred to by Thomas Jefferson in 1819 as “The Revolution of 1800,” the election results marked the first peaceful change of executive party in the US and confirmed the role of the electorate in choosing the American president.
