Powers of Congress
Domestic Powers
Implied Powers
Commerce Powers
Members of Congress
100
The Selective Service Act of 1917 is also known as this.
What is the draft? +2
100
The Framers of the Constitution decided on this type of legislature, meaning two houses.
What is bicameral?
100
The draft falls under the expressed power of Congress to do this.
What is raise an army and declare war?
100
The buying and selling of goods.
What is trade?
100
This Act set the total number of members in the House of Representatives to 435.
What is the Reapportionment Act? +2
200
An amount of money charged by the government to meet public needs.
What is a tax?
200
The government grants these in order to protect the creative work of artists.
What are copyrights?
200
The Constitution grants the implied powers of Congress through this last clause in Article 1.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause (or Elastic Clause)? +2
200
When Congress created a national paper currency, they called the bills these.
What are Greenbacks?
200
The redrawing of district lines.
What is gerrymandering?
300
These powers of Congress are specifically set in Article 1 of the Constitution.
What is expressed?
300
The government grants these to protect an invention.
What are patents?
300
The Food and Drug Administration and minimum wage laws are implied powers that fall under this expressed power of Congress.
What is commerce? +2
300
The Supreme Court's broad definition of "commerce" has resulted in greatly expanded ____ power.
What is federal? +2
300
The consideration of an action on a bill by the full membership of the House or Senate.
What is floor consideration?
400
The federal budget of the US is closes to this amount.
What is $4 trillion? +2
400
The legal procedure when the person's assets (everything a person owns) are paid to those to whom the debt is owed is called this.
What is bankruptcy? +1
400
In the event of an emergency, the President calls this even after Congress has adjourned.
What is a special session? +2
400
The Supreme Court case that confirmed that the power of interstate commerce belongs to Congress only.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden? +2
400
A person that balances being a delegate, a trustee, and partisan votes as this.
What is politico? +2
500
These three are territories of the United States.
What are Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands? +3
500
Spending more money than the government takes in, and then borrowing money to make up the difference.
What is deficit financing? +3
500
The process of giving full citizenship to a person born in another country.
What is naturalization? +2
500
Taxes on foreign goods to protect industries in the United States.
What are protective tariffs? +2
500
To charge an official with any wrongdoing or a criminal act.
What is impeach?
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