Exam Flashcards
List the KY Congressman
Tom Massie, Mitch McConnell, and Rand Paul
What are the qualifications & terms of office for Representatives?
- 25 years old
- Citizen for 7 years
- You have to be a legal resident of the state1.
- 2 year term to meet the immediate need of people
- 90% are reelected
- There are special elections to fill vacancies
What are the qualifications & terms of office for Senators?
- 30 years old
- Citizen for 9 years
- You have to be a legal resident of the state
- Statewide elections on the even years
- 6 year term
- 1/3 run for reelection
- There are special elections to fill vacancies
What does apportionment decide?
How many reps each state gets
What allows Congress to stretch its powers?
The Necessary and Proper Clause
What gives authorization to spend and levy taxes?
The Power of the Purse
What regulates interstate commerce for almost all business and regulates working conditions?
The Commerce Clause
What is Congress having the power to make anyone a citizen?
Naturalization
What protects publications, logos, and trade marks?
Copyright
What protects intellectual property and designs?
Patent
What is the power to remove people from office. The House casts the vote, while the senate holds the trial?
Impeachment
What does Confirmation do?
It checks presidential appointments
What does Ratification do?
It gives advice or consent to foreign treaties and needs 2/3 votes be senate
What does an Amendment allow?
It allows congress to get around the Constitution and Supreme Court decisions
How does a bill become a law?
- A bill starts as an idea in someone’s brain.
- You need to get a congressman to sponsor your bill because it is important to the congressman and important to constituents.
- The bill is then sent to the House and put in a Hopper to wait its turn to be read on the house floor and referred to a committee.
- The committee then debates & makes changes to the bill before it is voted upon. If they vote yes, then the bill is sent to house or subcommittee. If they vote no, then the bill dies.
- When the bill is sent to the House floor, members debate and sometimes Amendments can be offered.
- After they debate, they read the bill and vote on it; either voting yes, no, or present. If majority passes it, then it is referred to the Senate.
- In the Senate it goes through the same process that it did in the House, but this time, if they pass it then it is enrolled and sent to the president.
- The president then has three options; to sign it and make it a law, to pocket it and if he doesn’t sign it in ten days then it automatically becomes a law, or to veto it and kill it.
- If the bill is vetoed, then it is sent back Congress to be voted on again. If 2/3 of Congress passes the bill, then the veto is overridden.
What are the terms of the Presidential term?
- 4 years long
- A president can only serve two terms
- He gets $400,000 a year after his term(s) are up
What are the Requirements for President?
- 35 years old
- A resident for 14 years
- A natural born citizen
What is the order of people who become president is the president died?
Vice president, speaker, pro-tempore, and cabinet officers
What are the Vice Presidents roles?
- Presides over the senate and breaks ties
- Decides whether a president is disabled
- Follows the presidents orders
- He makes appearances, speeches, and diplomats
What is the President’s power of Commander in Chief
He commands the army
What is the President’s power of Appointments?
The president can fill vacancies within his cabinet and the federal court system
What is the President’s power of Pardons?
He can reduce or eliminate a federal sentence
What is the President’s power to make treaties with advice and consent of the Senate?
Treaties than the President brings home aren’t recognized until they are ratified
What is the President’s power of the State of the Union and special sessions?
The president gives the State of the Union address every year, at the capital, to the nation
What are the benefits of Media Access?
Agenda, legislature, and to apply pressure
How does the power to Override limit the President’s power?
Trumps a presidential veto with 2/3 votes
How does the power of Impeachment limit the President’s power?
Congress can question and take to trial the President
How does the power of Confirmation limit the President’s power?
The approving of presidential appointments
How does the power of Public Opinion limit the President’s power?
It has no legal power, but it has the power of persuasion
What article is the Supreme Court under?
Article 3
What is the Supreme Court?
Most of their cases are appealed from lower courts, so their decisions are binding on lower.
What is Jurisdiction?
It is the authority to hear certain cases. Those cases include cases involving representatives from foreign governments, certain cases in which the state is a party, cases appealed from lower courts, cases from state supreme court, and cases involving the federal law or the constitution
List a Supreme Court Justice
Chief justice John Roberts
Who is the Vice President?
Joe Biden
What can Congress Impeach officials for?
They can impeach treason, bribery, and High Crime & Misdemeanors
What are the duties of the Judicial Branch?
They hear and rule on cases. They decide which cases, they decide on cases, and they explain court decisions
