the Constitution
House of Representatives
Senate
How a Bill Becomes a Law
Executive Branch
100
The Constitution was to go into effect when it was ratified by this number of states
What is nine?
100
minimum age for serving in the House of Representatives
What is twenty-five?
100
minimum age for serving in the Senate
What is thirty?
100
If a bill has the letters HR before a number, in which house of Congress did it originate?
What is the House of Representatives?
100
minimum age for serving as U.S. President
What is thirty-five?
200
Year in which the Constitutional Convention met
What was 1787?
200
Length of a term in the U.S. House?
What is two years?
200
Length of a Senator's term
What is 6 years?
200
According to the Constitution, revenue (money) bills must originate in this house of Congress
What is the House of Representatives?
200
Who is next in the line of succession after the Vice President?
Who is the Speaker of the House?
300
Section of the Constitution dealing with the Legislative Branch
What is Article I?
300
Number of Congressmen in the House of Representatives
What is 435?
300
When one or more Senators who oppose a bill gain control of the floor and talk and talk to delay and disrupt the work of the Senate
What is a filibuster?
300
Representatives of groups that seek to influence laws and policies
What are lobbyists?
300
The President's annual message to Congress
What is the State of the Union address
400
Section of the Constitution dealing with the Executive Branch
What is Article II?
400
Title for person from majority party presiding over the House of Representatives
What is Speaker of the House?
400
Title of person who presides over the Senate if the President of the Senate (the V.P.) is absent
Who is the President Pro Tempore?
400
When a President chooses neither to sign nor veto a bill and it becomes law after 10 days without the President's signature
What is a pocket veto?
400
By issuing one of these, a President can act without waiting for Congress
What is an executive order?
500
Number of Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
What is twenty-seven?
500
Congressional district drawn with an unusual shape (to help majority party)
What is gerrymandering?
500
Amendment that changed how Senators were elected (from state legislatures to popular vote)
What is the Seventeenth Amendment?
500
Type of bill that earmarks/sets aside money for legislation and government programs
What is an appropriation bill?
500
Amendment that changed voting procedures so that electors now vote separately for President and Vice President.
What is the Twelfth Amendment?
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