Chapter 5 Vocabulary Flashcards
Power of Legislature to review and monitor activities of a federal agency.
a. Constituent
b. Interest Groups
c. Political Action Committee
d. Oversight
The bringing of formal charges by a legislature against a public official to remove them from office.
a. Impeach
b. Ex Post Facto
c. Bill of Attainder
d. Writ of Habeas Corpus
Organization that is created to raise and distribute campaign money to candidates for elective public office.
a. Interest Groups
b. Political Action Committees
c. Bill of Attainder
d. Writ of Habeas Corpus
To determine how many legislators should represent a jurisdiction.
a. census
b. apportion
c. gerrymandering
d. franking privilege
A resident of a district or state represented by an elected official.
a. Oversight
b. census
c. constituent
d. interest group
A group whose members hold common political beliefs and work to influence government officials.
a. Ex post facto
b. interest group
c. apportion
d. constituent
The redrawing of legislative district boundaries in order to strengthen the political power of one group or party over another.
a. census
b. apportion
c. gerrymandering
d. immunity
A law that illegalizes specific acts that took place before it was passed.
a. Immunity
b. Ex post facto law
c. bill of attainder
d. writ of habeas corpus
A protection for certain government officials from being sued or prosecuted for actions that are part of their elective office.
a. census
b. apportion
c. immunity
d. gerrymandering
The right of a member of Congress to send mail without paying postage.
a. gerrymandering
b. franking privilege
c. immunity
d. bill of attainder
A law that convicts people of a crime and punishes them without a trial.
a. ex post facto law
b. bill of attainder
c. writ of habeas corpus
d. apportion
Judicial order that forces police to give an account as to what a prisoner has been arrested for.
a. ex post facto law
b. writ of habeas corpus
c. bill of attainder
d. gerrymandering
A periodic, official counting of the population.
a. constituent
b. oversight
c. political action committee
d. census
