Chapter 4 Key Terms

Question 1

What is Bicameral

Answer 1

Having two branches or chambers

Question 2

What is the House of Representatives

Answer 2

meant to be the representation of the people of a state with 435 members

Question 3

Senate

Answer 3

The Senate is the representation of the states with each state getting two members with the Senate containing 100 total members

Question 4

Seventeenth Amendment

Answer 4

Allows for the people of the state to directly elect their senators passes in 1913

Question 5

Advice and Consent

Answer 5

this power allows the Senators to recommend or reject major presidential appointees

Question 6

Coalitions

Answer 6

An alliance for combined action

Question 7

Power of the Purse

Answer 7

Allows Congress to determine how much funding an organization gets

Question 8

caucuses

Answer 8

political groups that unite around a common interest, belief, or concern

Question 9

enumerated powers

Answer 9

Listed in Article 1, Section 8 of the constitution these powers allow for the creation of public policy - the laws that govern the US

Question 10

Implied powers

Answer 10

powers that aren’t specifically given to Congress in the Constitution but powers that are implied for Congress to have

Question 11

Necessary and proper clause

Answer 11

this gives Congress the power to create any and all that are deemed necessary and proper for the powers to work

Question 12

War power act(1973)

Answer 12

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

Question 13

cloture rule

Question 14

filibuster

Question 15

germane

Question 17

hold

Question 18

logrolling

Question 19

omnibus bill

Question 20

pork-barrel spending

Question 21

rider

Question 22

sponsor

Question 23

unanimous consent

Question 24

comittee of the whole

Question 25

conference committee

Question 26

discharge petition

Question 27

joint committees

Question 28

President of the senate

Question 29

president pro tempore

Question 30

rules committee

Question 31

select committee

Question 32

senate majority leader

Question 33

ways and means committee

Answer 33

whip

Question 34

whip

Question 35

deficit

Question 36

discretionary spending

Question 37

mandatory spending

Question 38

baker v carr

Question 39

delegate model

Answer 39

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Question 40

gerrymandering

Answer 40

redrawing district lines to make one party get more votes compared to the other parties

Question 41

lame duck president

Answer 41

A president or executive who has not won reelection or who is closing in on the end of the second presidential term

Question 42

gridlock

Answer 42

when congress shuts down due to conflicting opinions

Question 43

one person-one vote principle

Answer 43

basically undoes the 3/5ths compromise making a black person have a full vote

Question 44

politico model

Answer 44

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

Question 45

racial gerrymandering

Answer 45

redrawing boundaries to render a minority race majority to become smaller minority districts to render their vote useless.

Question 46

shaw v reno

Answer 46

Supreme Court judge required the state a massacuchets to redraw boundaries to include a second black majority sector.

Question 47

swing district

Answer 47

A district that has a close margin in votes like 48% Republican 52% Democrat

Question 48

trustee model

Answer 48

some representatives vote according to the principle that their constituents trust them to use their own judgement to decide on an action