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Flashcards by Joana Perez Reye, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Joana Perez Reye
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| Question | Answer |
| Bicameral | a legislature consisting of two parts, or houses. |
| House of Representatives | the larger body of COngress, has 435 voting members allotted to the states according to population. |
| Constituents | a 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 | is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives. |
| President pro tempore | is a constitutionally recognized officer of a legislative body who presides over the chamber in the absence of the normal presiding officer. |
| Party whips | "enforcers", who typically offer inducements and threaten party members to ensure that they vote according to the official party policy. |
| Standing Committee | are permanent legislative panels established by the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate rules. |
| 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 | The Power to tax and spend for the defense and general welfare of the U.S. Borrow money. |
| 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 | charge (the holder of a public office) with misconduct. |
| bills of attainder | (also known as an act of attainder or writ of attainder or bill of pains and penalties) is an act of a legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without a trial. |
| ex post facto laws | (Latin for "from after the action" or "after the facts") 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 | legal qualifications for our congressional representatives are spelled out in the COnstitution. |
| franking privilege | allows Members of Congress to transmit mail matter under their signature without postage. |
| pork barrell 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 | sets three qualifications for service in the U.S. 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 | is a motion or process in parliamentary procedure aimed at bringing debate to a quick end. It is also called closure or, informally, a guillotine. |
| veto | a constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body |
| pocket veto | is a legislative maneuver that allows a president or other official with veto power to exercise that power over a bill by taking no action (instead of affirmatively vetoing it). |
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