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.
Kant holds that the fundamental principle of our moral duties is a categorical imperative. It is an imperative because it is a command (e.g., âLeave the gun. Take the cannoli.â) More precisely, it commands us to exercise our wills in a particular way, not to perform some action or other.mmanuel Kant (1724â1804) argued that moral requirements are based on a standard of rationality he dubbed the âCategorical Imperativeâ (CI). Immorality thus involves a violation of the CI and is thereby irrational.