Quiz 4a

Question 0

revenue bills

Answer 0

Must originate in the House of Representatives (special power)

Question 1

Bicameral (two-house) congress

Answer 1

The Senate and House of Representatives are a result of what?

Question 2

Impeachment power

Answer 2

The authority to charge the president, vice president, and other civil officers with “high crimes and misdemeanors” given to the house (special power)

Question 3

“elastic clause”

Answer 3

allowed the government to “make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this constitution in the government of the United States”

Question 4

Standing committees

Answer 4

The most important type of committees because they handle bills a different policy areas

Separate in the house and state

Question 5

joint committees

Answer 5

Have members from both the House and Senate

Set up to conduct business between the houses and to help focus public attention on major issues

Question 6

Select committees

Answer 6

Committees formed for specific purposes and are usually temporary

Question 7

Party polarization

Answer 7

Growing distance between policy views of the average members of each party

leads to a more cumbersome legislative process

Question 8

malapportionment

Answer 8

States drawing districts of unequal size and population

Question 9

Gerrymandering

Answer 9

District boundaries are drawn in strange ways in order to make it easy for the candidate of one party to win election in that district

Question 10

Baker v Carr

Answer 10

Supreme Court rule (1962) which permitted voters to challenge the constitutionality of voting districts in the courts

Question 11

Westberry v Sanders

Answer 11

Court case addressing malapportionment

The court ordered that districts be drawn so that one person’s vote would be as equal as possible to another
(one man one vote)

Question 12

Mid-decade redistricting

Answer 12

Second redistricting based off of voting results

Question 13

League of United Latin American citizens et al. v Perry, gov. of Texas

Answer 13

Supreme Court case reviewing the second redistricting in texas (mid-decade)

The court ruled that the mid decade redistricting plan did not violate the Constitution

HOWEVER

The court ruled that the districts were drawn in a way to deny Latino voters as a group the opportunity to elect a candidate of their choosing

Question 14

Authorization

Answer 14

Bill that must be passed by congress when a law is passed setting up a government program that states the maximum amount of money available

Question 15

Appropriations

Answer 15

The actual amount of money available in a fiscal year

When the nations budget is set, only Congress can set THIS for each program that it has authorized

Question 16

Speaker of the house

Answer 16

The most important leadership position in the house

Question 17

President pro tempore

Answer 17

The official chair in the senate, but since the job has no real powers, the job of presiding over the senate is usually given to a junior senator

Question 18

Shaw v Reno

Answer 18

Supreme Court case where the plaintiffs charged the Justice Department with reverse discrimination based on the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment

a result of minority/majority the redistricting

Question 19

Easley v. Cromartie

Answer 19

Supreme Court case regarding racial gerrymandering

The court ruled that race may be a factor in redistricting, but not the “dominate and controlling” one

Question 20

incumbents

incumbency advantage

Answer 20

Those who already hold the office, with secure seats

Question 21

Franking privilege

Answer 21

Free mailings

–sending mail without postage stamps

Question 22

Simple resolution

Answer 22

Passed by either the house or the Senate, and usually establishes rules, regulations, or practices that do not have the force of law

Question 23

Concurrent resolution

Answer 23

Resolution that comes from both houses, and often settles housekeeping and procedural matters that affect both houses
(not signed by the president and do not have the force of law)

Question 24

Joint resolution

Answer 24

Requires the approval of both houses and the signature of the president, and is essentially the same as a law

Question 25

Racial gerrrymandering

Answer 25

ygyu v uy gg

Question 26

Marginal districts

Answer 26

Districts that have close elections (when the winner gets less than 55% of the vote)

Question 27

Safe districts

Answer 27

Districts where incumbents win by wide margins (55 percent or more)

Question 28

Public bill

Answer 28

Pertaining to public affairs generally

Question 29

Private bill

Answer 29

Pertaining to a particular individual, such as a person pressing a financial claim against the government or seeking special permission to become a naturalized citizen

Question 30

Unified government

Answer 30

A single party in power in the White House and in both chambers of Congress