- What are the tree principal functions of legislatures?
- The three principal functions of legislatures is policy-making, representation, and oversight. Policy-making deals with approving laws and distributing funds. Legislatures engage in debates sometimes about budgets, higher education, or health care. This then leads legislatures to create new laws, change spending, or revise old laws. That is why policy-making is a principal function in the legislature. Representation deals with the legislators speaking on behalf of the people who live in their district. They are expected to speak for their constituents in the legislative chamber. They also can represent their community by making policy solutions that are aimed at public opinion. The legislator can also act as their constituents facilitator in state government which is another way to represent them. Oversight deals with legislators who are concerned that the laws they've passed or the funds they distributed did not do what they intended it to do. They then began to pay more attention to state bureaucracy performance. This leads them into a more administrative realm and try to get the desired outcome they believed it should have caused.
