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.
For Kant, practical reason issues a categorical imperative that commands us to act in a accordance with the dictates of reason. There is only one categorical imperative, but Kant offers three formulations of it: 1) Act as if your maxim were a universal law of nature.f you are a dog or a tree, you do not fit into Kant's moral ontology. To find examples, think of an action and then put it through the testing procedure of the categorical imperative. Kant's favorite example is that of lying.