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Flashcards by Fernando Carranz, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Fernando Carranz
about 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| bicameral | having two branches or chambers. |
| the house of representatives . | the lower house of the United States Congress. |
| constituents | a member of a constituency |
| gerrymander | the dividing of a state, county, etc., into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts |
| 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 | a high-ranking senator of the majority party who presides over the US Senate in the absence of the vice president. |
| Party whips | 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 | a term that is used to refer to a committee made up of members of both chambers of a bicameral legislature. |
| seniority system | Senators are given preferential treatment in choosing committee assignments based on seniority. Seniority on a committee is based on length of time serving on that committee. |
| expressed powers | Those powers of Congress specifically listed in the Constitution. |
| implied powers | In the United States, are those powers authorized by a document (from the Constitution) that, while not stated, seem to be implied by powers expressly stated. |
| elastic clause | 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 |
| bills of attainder | an item of legislation (prohibited by the US Constitution) that inflicts attainder without judicial process. |
| ex post facto laws | 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 | Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution sets three qualifications for representatives. Each representative must: (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 | The right of members to post mail to constituents without having to pay postage. A copy of the member's signature replaces the stamp on the envelope. |
| pork barrell projects | 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 | The Constitution 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 | 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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