2nd Unit Gov. Quiz #1 Flashcards
Term
2 year period of time during which congress meets
Session
A period of time during which, each year, congress meets
🌟Reapportionment
To redistribute the seats in the house after each census
🌟435 members, # of members per state depends on the population size, 2 yr term,
need to be 25, a citizen for 7 years, and need to live in state
House of representatives
🌟100 members, 2 members per state, 6 yr in office,
you need to be 30, a citizen for 9 yrs, and live in the state
Senate
🌟Who is the presiding officer for the senate?
What is his/her job?
The vice president
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Recognizes members (?), puts questions to vote (?).
may vote only to break a tie
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🌟Who is the presiding officer for the house of representatives?
What is his/her job?
The house speaker
To preside in a fair and judicious manor, and to aid the fortunes of his party and it’s legislative goals
Bicameralism
Any parliamentary legislature that has 2 parliamentary bodies to make laws
Single member districts
Voters in each district elect one of the states representatives from among candidates running for a seat in the house from that district
Expressed powers
The powers in wording in the constitution
Implied powers
Implied through reasonable deduction from the expressed powers
Inherent powers
By creating a national government for the US, these are the powers inherently given
Necessary and proper clause
Constitutional clause that gives congress the power to make all laws that are necessary and proper for executing its powers
🌟How do you amend the constitution?
You need 2/3 votes from members in the senate and 3/4 vote from the total population
🌟Impeachment
The house can vote to impeach (remove) the president, vice president, or any other civil officers of the US
The senate can conduct trials against it.
🌟Filibuster
An attempt to “talk a bill to death” as it were.
🌟How does the concept of “Checks and Balances” relate to the Bill process
The concept of “Checks and Balances” has to do with each branch having some control over the other. Bills can be approved, or downright rejected during the bill process
🌟Strict vs liberal constructionist
Strickts follow the constitution
Constructionists have a loose interpretation of it
🌟Elastic clause
Also known as the necessary and proper clause, but it’s mostly called this because of the way it’s been stretched to cover many different areas in the government
Executive power can…
Confirm treaties and appointments
Investigative power (congress) can..
Set up committees to investigate certain topics
What does it mean to appropriate funds?
Assigns a particular use
How is the successor of the vice president if something should happen to him/her?
The president nominates someone
Which two presidents were impeached by the house?
Johnson and Clinton
Cross section
Completely equal, congress does not do this
What are Expressed powers?
Examples
Powers that are literally spelled out in the constitution
Indirect/direct tax, copyright, bankruptcy, patent, commerce power, and power to borrow
For treaties to by confirmed by the senate, what percentage must vote yes?
2/3 of the senate
What is the meaning of Copyright
You have the exclusive right to re-copy and/or publish your work
(song, movie, etc…)
Bankruptcy
When your out of money
What’s a patent?
Your given the authority to sell an invention of yours, no one can steal it.
Commerce power
The power to regulate interstate and foreign trade.
Power to borrow
Congress can borrow money to protect businesses
🌟President pro tempore
President is in charge of the senate when the vice president isn’t
🌟House rules committee decides…
When to put bills on the calendar?
🌟Where do most bills die?
The committee
Whats a Filibuster?
When the senator can talk a bill to death (or rather “prevents action on the bill”)
