PAD FINAL EXAM REVIEW Flashcards
Order of the president leaves office before the end of the term:
Vice President
Speaker of the House
President of State
Secretary of Senate
9 roles of presidency
- Chief of state
- Chief executive
- Chief Administrator
- Chief Diplomat
- Commander-in-chief
- Chief Legislator
- Party Leader
- Chief Citizen
- Economic Planner
3 branches of government
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
VP Duties According to constitution
- Presides over Senate
- Helps determine Presidential Disability
Congress
Senate and the House of Representatives
House of representatives
- Based on population
- 435 members
- Congresswomen/men
- States constituency
- Districts in home state
- CD= about 761,000
- 2-year terms
- Leader is the Speaker of the House
Senate
- 100 members; 2 for each state (not based on population)
- Represent whole state
- 6-year terms
- Official leader is VP
- 118th congress
Redistricting
Re-drawing district lines
- census taken every 10 years (population count)
Apportionment
Population of each state determines number of representatives to which each state is entitled
CD’s (congressional districts)
Set up by the state legislatures
Gerrymandering
Majority party in a State Legislature that draws district boundaries to gain an partisan in elections advantage
Packing
crowds opposing voters into a minority number of districts
Cracking
divides opposing voters into minority positions within districts
Filibuster
A way to defeat a bill by constant talking until the majority of the Senate either abandons it or agrees to modify it
Cloture
Filibuster can be stopped with a 3/5 majority (60 votes)
Bill
a proposed law
4 types of congressional committees
- Standing
- Select
- Joint
- Conference
Most day-to-day details of legislation take place in…
Specialized Congressional Committees
Electoral College
An indirect election system used in the nations presidential election
Each state has a number of electoral votes…
equal to its total number of representatives in both houses of congress
How many electoral votes are needed for a president to receive the majority?
270
What happens if an election is a tie?
the election goes to the House of Representatives
When the president wins the popular vote but loses in the electoral count, this is referred to as a…
Divided verdict
When the election goes to the House…
It goes to the newly-elected House
