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Bicameral | a legislative body having two branches or chambers |
House of Representatives | Is the larger body of Congress, has 435 voting members allotted to the states according to population |
constituents | State legislatures must draw the boundaries so that the districts include roughly the same number of constituents, or people represented |
gerrymander | Is an oddly shaped district designed to increase the voting strength of a particular group |
Senate | the smaller upper assembly in the US Congress, most US states, France, and other countries. |
Speaker of the House | a member of the House, is elected by a majority party caucus. |
President pro tempore | a high-ranking senator of the majority party who presides over the US Senate in the absence of the vice president. |
Party whips | is a member of parliament who is selected by their parliamentary party to take on the role of team manager |
standing committee | a permanent committee that meets regularly. |
select committee | a small legislative committee appointed for a special purpose. |
Joint Committee | is a term that is used to refer to a committee made up of members of both chambers of a bicameral legislature. |
seniority system | is a way to determine employment advantages based on the length of service of employees. |
expressed powers | Those powers of Congress specifically listed in the Constitution. |
implied powers | that is, powers not explicitly named in the Constitution but assumed to exist due to their being necessary to implement the expressed powers that are named in Article I. |
elastic clause | a statement in the U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 8) granting Congress the power to pass all laws necessary and proper for carrying out the enumerated list of powers. |
impeach | call into question the integrity or validity of (a practice). |
bills of attainder | an item of legislation (prohibited by the US Constitution) that inflicts attainder without judicial process. |
ex post facto laws | is a law that retroactively changes the legal consequences (or status) of actions that were committed, or relationships that existed, before the enactment of the law. |
US Representative Qualifications | (1) be at least twenty-five years old; (2) have been a citizen of the United States for the past seven years; and (3) be (at the time of the election) an inhabitant of the state they represent. |
franking privilege | allows Members of Congress to transmit mail matter under their signature without postage. |
pork barrel projects | is a metaphor for the appropriation of government spending for localized projects secured solely or primarily to bring money to a representative's district. |
US Senator Qualifications | Senate: age (at least thirty years of age); U.S. citizenship (at least nine years); and residency in the state a senator represents at time of election. |
filibuster | an action such as a prolonged speech that obstructs progress in a legislative assembly while not technically contravening the required procedures. |
cloture | (in a legislative assembly) a procedure for ending a debate and taking a vote. |
veto | a constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body. |
pocket veto | an indirect veto of a legislative bill by the president or a governor by retaining the bill unsigned until it is too late for it to be dealt with during the legislative session. |
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