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Flashcards by Kyle Gause, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Kyle Gause
about 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Bicameral | Having two branches or chambers. |
| House of Representatives | The lower house of the US Congress and other legislatures, including most US state governments. |
| Constituents | Member of a constituency. |
| Gerrymander | Manipulate the boundaries of (an electoral constituency) so as to favor one party or class. |
| Senate | Any of various legislative or governing bodies, in particular. |
| Speaker of the House | The presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives. |
| President pro tempore | High-ranking senator of the majority party who presides over the US Senate in the absence of the vice president. |
| Party whips | Legislator appointed by the party to enforce discipline |
| Standing committee | Permanent committee that meets regularly. |
| Select committee | Small legislative committee appointed for a special purpose |
| Joint Committee | Committee appointed from both houses of a bicameral legislature in order to reach a compromise on their differences concerning a particular issue. |
| Seniority system | Precedence of position, especially precedence over others of the same rank by reason of a longer span of service |
| Expressed powers | Powers that Congress has that are specifically listed in the Constitution. |
| Implied powers | Powers notspecifically spelled out in the Constitution |
| Elastic clause | 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 | Legislative act that imposes punishment without a trial |
| Ex post facto laws | Law that retroactively changes the legal consequences (or status) of actions that were committed |
| US Representative Qualifications | “No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.” |
| Franking privilege | The privilege of sending certain matter through the public mails without payment of postage. In pursuance of a personal or official privilege. |
| Pork Barrell Projects | The use of government funds for projects designed to please voters or legislators and win votes |
| US Senator Qualifications | Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution sets three qualifications for senators: 1) each senator must be at least 30 years old, 2) must have been a citizen of the United States for at least the past nine years, and 3) must be (at the time of the election) an inhabitant of the state they seek to represent. The age and citizenship qualifications for senators are more stringent than those for representatives. In Federalist No. 62, James Madison justified this arrangement by arguing that the "senatorial trust" called for a "greater extent of information and stability of character." |
| Filibuster | An action such as a prolonged speech that obstructs progress in a legislative assembly while not technically contravening the required procedures |
| Cloture | Procedure for ending a debate and taking a vote |
| Veto | Constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body |
| Pocket Veto | 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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