Why Do U.S. Senators Serve Six-Year Terms?

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U.S. senators serve six-year terms because the Constitution's framers wanted a chamber with more continuity and independence than the House of Representatives. Six years was a compromise between competing ideas about stability and accountability. The length also fits a staggered election system: roughly one-third of Senate seats come before voters every two years. That means the country can change part of the chamber without replacing its entire elected membership at once. The choice was debated rather than discovered in a single obvious formula. The Senate's historical account describes proposals ranging from relatively short terms to life tenure. Some delegates wanted senators to have time to develop judgment and resist passing political pressures. Others worried that a long stay in office could distance members from the people and states they represented. A longer term could protect independent decisions, but it also postponed the next regular opportunity to replace a senato...
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What is a Keyboard?

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A set of switches that resemble a typewriter keyboard and that conveys information from a user to a computer or data communication circuit, is called a keyboard. A computer keyboard is usually similar to a typewriter, with the traditional QWERTY layout of letter and digit numerical pad and function keys. The keyboard may be part of a personal computer or part of a terminal connected to a computer somewhere else. Not all keyboards are QWERTY mode. For instance, Café outlet keyboards may have keyboards that represent items with name like Muccaccino, Cappuccino, etc. The keyboards sold today come with 105 keys. It features 12 function keys arranged at the top of the keyboard, and a larger backspace key, a numeric keypad, a cursor movement keypad, toggle lights and better placed Central keys.
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