2nd Unit Gov. Quiz #1

Question 1

Term

Answer 1

2 year period of time during which congress meets

Question 2

Session

Answer 2

A period of time during which, each year, congress meets

Question 3

🌟Reapportionment

Answer 3

To redistribute the seats in the house after each census

Question 4

🌟435 members, # of members per state depends on the population size, 2 yr term,

need to be 25, a citizen for 7 years, and need to live in state

Answer 4

House of representatives

Question 5

🌟100 members, 2 members per state, 6 yr in office,

you need to be 30, a citizen for 9 yrs, and live in the state

Answer 5

Senate

Question 6

🌟Who is the presiding officer for the senate?

What is his/her job?

Answer 6

The vice president

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Recognizes members (?), puts questions to vote (?).
may vote only to break a tie
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Question 7

🌟Who is the presiding officer for the house of representatives?

What is his/her job?

Answer 7

The house speaker

To preside in a fair and judicious manor, and to aid the fortunes of his party and it’s legislative goals

Question 8

Bicameralism

Answer 8

Any parliamentary legislature that has 2 parliamentary bodies to make laws

Question 9

Single member districts

Answer 9

Voters in each district elect one of the states representatives from among candidates running for a seat in the house from that district

Question 10

Expressed powers

Answer 10

The powers in wording in the constitution

Question 11

Implied powers

Answer 11

Implied through reasonable deduction from the expressed powers

Question 12

Inherent powers

Answer 12

By creating a national government for the US, these are the powers inherently given

Question 13

Necessary and proper clause

Answer 13

Constitutional clause that gives congress the power to make all laws that are necessary and proper for executing its powers

Question 14

🌟How do you amend the constitution?

Answer 14

You need 2/3 votes from members in the senate and 3/4 vote from the total population

Question 15

🌟Impeachment

Answer 15

The house can vote to impeach (remove) the president, vice president, or any other civil officers of the US
The senate can conduct trials against it.

Question 16

🌟Filibuster

Answer 16

An attempt to “talk a bill to death” as it were.

Question 17

🌟How does the concept of “Checks and Balances” relate to the Bill process

Answer 17

The concept of “Checks and Balances” has to do with each branch having some control over the other. Bills can be approved, or downright rejected during the bill process

Question 18

🌟Strict vs liberal constructionist

Answer 18

Strickts follow the constitution

Constructionists have a loose interpretation of it

Question 19

🌟Elastic clause

Answer 19

Also known as the necessary and proper clause, but it’s mostly called this because of the way it’s been stretched to cover many different areas in the government

Question 20

Executive power can…

Answer 20

Confirm treaties and appointments

Question 21

Investigative power (congress) can..

Answer 21

Set up committees to investigate certain topics

Question 22

What does it mean to appropriate funds?

Answer 22

Assigns a particular use

Question 23

How is the successor of the vice president if something should happen to him/her?

Answer 23

The president nominates someone

Question 24

Which two presidents were impeached by the house?

Answer 24

Johnson and Clinton

Question 25

Cross section

Answer 25

Completely equal, congress does not do this

Question 26

What are Expressed powers?

Examples

Answer 26

Powers that are literally spelled out in the constitution

Indirect/direct tax, copyright, bankruptcy, patent, commerce power, and power to borrow

Question 27

For treaties to by confirmed by the senate, what percentage must vote yes?

Answer 27

2/3 of the senate

Question 28

What is the meaning of Copyright

Answer 28

You have the exclusive right to re-copy and/or publish your work
(song, movie, etc…)

Question 29

Bankruptcy

Answer 29

When your out of money

Question 30

What’s a patent?

Answer 30

Your given the authority to sell an invention of yours, no one can steal it.

Question 31

Commerce power

Answer 31

The power to regulate interstate and foreign trade.

Question 32

Power to borrow

Answer 32

Congress can borrow money to protect businesses

Question 33

🌟President pro tempore

Answer 33

President is in charge of the senate when the vice president isn’t

Question 34

🌟House rules committee decides…

Answer 34

When to put bills on the calendar?

Question 35

🌟Where do most bills die?

Answer 35

The committee

Question 36

Whats a Filibuster?

Answer 36

When the senator can talk a bill to death (or rather “prevents action on the bill”)