With much of the understandable — and deserved — attention on the presidential contest between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, Americans tend not to put as much focus on the contests for Congress that will also be decided in November.

This is unfortunate. Despite the modern-day focus on the president, it was not intended that we be ruled by an elected dictator. The Founders actually intended for Congress to be the most powerful branch of the federal government, not the president, and certainly not the federal judiciary. Under the Constitution, “all legislative power” granted to the federal government was vested in a Congress, consisting of a House of Representatives and a Senate. And in comparing the two, most citizens mistakenly tend to give greater importance to the Senate than the House.

But all money bills must originate in the House, with each representative representing a particular district, which presently is only about 1/425th of the country. Because of this, and combined with the fact that each representative must face reelection every two years, members of the House of Representatives were intended to be the closest to the will of the people. 

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