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.
âAll virtue is contained in autonomy, all vice in its absence, and all morality is summarized in the imperatives that guide the will.â âYes, in Kantian terms, respect for autonomy is closely related to the categorical imperative of treating people as ends and not means.â