Chapter 3

Question 1

Bicameral

Answer 1

Two-house

Question 2

Seventeenth Amendment (1913)

Answer 2

Allowed for citizens to vote on their Senators

Question 3

Reapportionment

Answer 3

Periodic redistribution of US congressional seats according to changes in the census figures

Question 4

Federalist No. 64

Answer 4

Argues that uniformity and order will be preserved with fresh minds and old minds (talking about the Senate)

Question 5

Enumerated Powers

Answer 5

Specific powers given to Congress named in the Constitution

Question 6

Implied Powers

Answer 6

Powers not directly stated but required to fulfill the obligations of the enumerated powers

Question 7

Gibbons v Ogden (1824)

Answer 7

Supreme Court sided with the federal government, giving them authority over the regulation of navigable US waterways over states

Question 8

War Powers Act (1973)

Answer 8

Gives the president 48 hours in which to engage in urgent combat without informing Congress

Question 9

Impeach

Answer 9

Charing a person with offenses so serious they are determined to be “treason, bribery, and high crimes and misdemeanors”

Question 10

Advice and Consent

Answer 10

Allows Senators to recommend or reject major presidential appointees such as Cabinet secretaries and federal judges