Chapter 5 - The Legislative Branch

Question 1

bicameral legislature

Answer 1

A law making body of two houses - Senate & House of Representatives.

Question 2

apportioned

Answer 2

distributed. The seats of the House of Representatives are apportioned according to the population.

Question 3

gerrymandering

Answer 3

the practice of drawing district lines that favor a particular political party, politician, or group of people.

Question 4

immunity

Answer 4

legal protection. When Congress is in session, its members cannot be arrested in or on their way to or from a meeting in Congress.

Question 5

expulsion

Answer 5

a member of Congress must give up his or her seat because a serious offense was committed.

Question 6

censure

Answer 6

formal disapproval by Congress when one of its members commits a less serious offense

Question 7

sessions

Answer 7

one year of the meetings of Congress

Question 8

caucuses

Answer 8

meetings of party leaders to determine party policy or to choose the party’s candidates for public office

Question 9

president pro tempore

Answer 9

the official who presides over the Senate in the vice president’s absence

Question 10

whip

Answer 10

the person who assists the party’s floor leader in the Senate

Question 11

Speaker of the House

Answer 11

the presiding officer of the House of Representatives

Question 12

implied powers

Answer 12

powers not specifically granted to Congress by the U.S. Constitution that are suggested to be necessary to carry out the powers delegated to Congress under the Constitution

Question 13

elastic clause

Answer 13

Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution - the clause that allows Congress to extend its delegated powers

Question 14

impeached

Answer 14

to charge a government official with misconduct

Question 15

treason

Answer 15

an act that betrays and endangers one’s country