legislative branch Flashcards
article one
Half of the constitution describes the legislative branch
legislative branch
The bridge of government that makes the law has two houses the Senate in the House of Representatives
majority
more than half of the people also the biggest group in the legislative branch
minority
less than half smallest group in the legislative branch
congress
two meanings one of both the house in the Senate and the other meeting just the house
senate
One of the legislative branches to senators equal our representation names are Susan Collins and Angus can the three requirements you have to be a senator as you have to be 30 you have to be a citizen for nine years and live/owner a place in the state you’re running for there are 100 senators between all 50 states two servers are from Maine. Our senators are Angus King and Susan Collins.
house of reps
The other house and the legislative branch two representatives from main proportional representation their names are Shelley Pingree and Jared Golden the requirements are you have to be 25 have to be a citizen for seven years and you must live/own in the same space that you’re ready for our reps or Shelly penguin Jared Golden
bicameral
two chambers or groups
congressional record
when the vote/speeches are get recorded and are open to the public from the chambers
speaker of the house
Second to take over for the president in charge of the house of reps, they keep everything in line
president pro tempore
Latin for temporary president is an honor to be in this position. Usually one of the veteran senators they are third in line to take over the presidency when there’s an emergency in the Senate.
census
every 10 years they count people to see how many people are in the state giving them reps
term
when you serve as a leader first in amount of years, the term for the Senate is six years and they want some experience senators to help with the new ones. They only put 1/3 of people out for election in the house of two years and everyone is up for election at the same time.
impeachment
House would impeach the person vote if they were going to trial or not and the Senate vote if they’re guilty or not
president of the senate
The vice president wears new members and breaks the tie because there are 100 senators(even)
majority leader
party in power, the most important and powerful person in the senate
minority leader
party and power the most important powerful person in the senate
chambers
a place where each group goes to meet
committees
A group of members to debate and talk about current issues in the government
bill
b for baby law state before the laws
thinking about laws
anyone can give the idea of laws or be a role
constituents
The public
where it starts
it could start in both chambers
groups
they are small groups because it’s hard to debate/talk when there are 435 representatives or 100 senators
