Chapter 4 Key Terms Flashcards
What is Bicameral
Having two branches or chambers
What is the House of Representatives
meant to be the representation of the people of a state with 435 members
Senate
The Senate is the representation of the states with each state getting two members with the Senate containing 100 total members
Seventeenth Amendment
Allows for the people of the state to directly elect their senators passes in 1913
Advice and Consent
this power allows the Senators to recommend or reject major presidential appointees
Coalitions
An alliance for combined action
Power of the Purse
Allows Congress to determine how much funding an organization gets
caucuses
political groups that unite around a common interest, belief, or concern
enumerated powers
Listed in Article 1, Section 8 of the constitution these powers allow for the creation of public policy - the laws that govern the US
Implied powers
powers that aren’t specifically given to Congress in the Constitution but powers that are implied for Congress to have
Necessary and proper clause
this gives Congress the power to create any and all that are deemed necessary and proper for the powers to work
War power act(1973)
48 hours after the president makes an act of war he must tell Congress and they have at most 100 days to decide if they fund it
cloture rule
filibuster
germane
hold
logrolling
omnibus bill
pork-barrel spending
rider
sponsor
unanimous consent
comittee of the whole
conference committee
discharge petition
joint committees
President of the senate
president pro tempore
rules committee
select committee
senate majority leader
ways and means committee
whip
whip
deficit
discretionary spending
mandatory spending
baker v carr
delegate model
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gerrymandering
redrawing district lines to make one party get more votes compared to the other parties
lame duck president
A president or executive who has not won reelection or who is closing in on the end of the second presidential term
gridlock
when congress shuts down due to conflicting opinions
one person-one vote principle
basically undoes the 3/5ths compromise making a black person have a full vote
politico model
on matters of little political concern the politician will just vote and on matters of high public concern they’d make sure to follow what people want
racial gerrymandering
redrawing boundaries to render a minority race majority to become smaller minority districts to render their vote useless.
shaw v reno
Supreme Court judge required the state a massacuchets to redraw boundaries to include a second black majority sector.
swing district
A district that has a close margin in votes like 48% Republican 52% Democrat
trustee model
some representatives vote according to the principle that their constituents trust them to use their own judgement to decide on an action
