legislative branch at work # 3

source: " Kagen to join Supreme Court Saturday" September 19,2010
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/40709.html

Constitutional Connection: Article I, section 3, clause 5
"The Senate shall chuse their other Officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the Office of President of the United States."

Explanation of Connection: the Constitution gives the president the right to appoint Office members. but it is the power of the Senate to decide whether that appionted person can go on to actually hold the government office title he or she was appointed to hold. Preseident Barack Obama recently appointed Elana Kagen as a supreme court justice.
    The article represents  Article I, section 3, clause 5 of the United States Constitution. senate has the power to choose the people they want to hold an office position appointed to them by the president. this article shows that it is the sole responcibility of the Senate to choose important government Officers. the ability to choose Officers is a special power only given to the Senate who is of much older age than the House of Representatives.
    i think it was a good choice for the founding fathers to give important powers of choice to the Legislature. i think it was an even greater idea to give that power and responcibilty to the older of the two groups. I dont think that government would be the same if the president got to make the final appointments: politics would be thrown off and everything would be corrupt. I dont  dissagre with any parrt of the above cause.