Bicameral Structure of Congress. The Constitution created a bicameral national legislatureâthat is, a Congress composed of two separate chambers, the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Senate, sometimes called the upper house, is smaller (currently 100 seats) and its members serve longer terms (six years).
The categorical imperative is an idea that the philosopher Immanuel Kant had about ethics. Kant said that an imperative is something that a person must do. For example: if a person wants to stop being thirsty, it is imperative that they have a drink.
Since imperatives are neither true nor false and since they are not proper objects of belief, none of the standard accounts of logical validity apply to arguments containing imperatives. Here is the dilemma. Either arguments containing imperatives can be valid or not. On the one hand, if such arguments can be valid, we need a new or expanded account of logical validity and the concomitant details.