1 n-count If you refer to a place such as a house or a castle as an eyrie, you mean it is built high up and is difficult to reach. LITERARY with supp. ...marooned in my 48th floor eyrie in the sky. 2 n-count An eyrie is the nest of a bird of prey such as an eagle, and is usually built high up in the mountains.
The United States Congress has an upper chamber called the Senate and a lower chamber called the House of Representatives (or âHouseâ for short) which share the responsibilities of the legislative process to create federal statutory law.
The United States is a multi-faceted Representative Democracy: we elect representatives in many aspects of our government form, all of which have specific duties and limits on power. We periodically have elections to either retain or replace our representatives. Representative form of government is one where (some) citizens chose another citizen to make political decisions for them. That is, rather than a citizen being directly involved in politics and government, they chose a proxy to make their choice for them.