5. Why do you think a bill has to pass both houses of Congress to reach the President's
desk?

A bill has to pass through both houses of Congress to make it to the president because the Framers of the Constitution wanted  to make sure that it was hard for the government to oppress us and hard for it to make bad laws on a whim.

Explanation:

a.

congress passed laws allowing for free passage between states.

the first 10 amendments to the u.s. constitution are known as the bill of rights. those 10 amendments establish the most basic freedoms for americans including the rights to worship how they want, speak how they want, and assembly and peaceably protest their government how they want. the amendments have also been subject to much interpretation since their adoption, particularly the right to carry a gun under the second amendment.

"a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference," said thomas jefferson, the author of the declaration of independence and the third president of the united states.