CHAPTERS 4-7

Question 1

Reapportionment

Answer 1

A process of redrawing voting district lines from time to time and adjusting the number of representatives allotted each state

Question 2

Filibuster

Answer 2

A technique in which a senator speaks against a bill or talks about nothing specific just to hold the floor

Question 3

Executive Agreement

Answer 3

a government to government agreement with essentially the same legal force as a treaty.

Question 4

Joint Committees

Answer 4

Groups of members from both chambers who study broad areas that are of interest to congress as a whole

Question 5

Continuing resolution

Answer 5

A bill passed by congress and signed by the president that enables the federal government to keep operating under the previous years appropriations

Question 6

Writ Of Certiorari

Answer 6

A latin term meaning to be made more certain

Enables the court to accept cases for review only if there special and important reasons

Question 7

Inherent Powers

Answer 7

Powers that do not appear in the constitution but are assumed because of the nature of government

Question 8

Bicameral

Answer 8

Legs. system with two houses