Gerrymandering
The definition of gerrymandering.
What is manipulation/changing boundary lines of a district in favor of one party or class?
The house it has to go through in order to pass the bill.
What is both houses with a 51% vote in each?
What the legislative branch includes.
What is the House of Representatives and Senate?
Who the letter(s) was written by.
What is Martin Luther King Jr.?
What separation of powers is.
What is the division of government position into legislative, judicial, and executive branches?
Packing.
What is a majority in population and class is placed into one district causing there to be an increased amount of people in one district?
A cloture vote.
What is a vote to end the debate over a bill and requires 60% to say yes?
Legislative committees function and purpose.
What is to consider bills, maintain oversight of executive agencies, and conduct investigations?
Why MLK delivered these messages.
What is because there was injustice there?
Purpose of each branch.
What is the legislative makes laws, the executive enforces the laws, and the judicial checks the constitutionality of the government actions?
Cracking.
What is splitting the boundary lines when redrawing?
Where a bill can come from.
What is individual citizens, special interest groups, corporations, and non-governmental organizations(NGO's)?
The elastic clause.
What is the clause that gives Congress the power to make laws "necessary and proper" to carry out delegated duties?
The purpose of the letters from birmingham.
What is to account the long road of freedom and responding to being an outsider?
Checks and balances.
What is the process in which each branch can impact the actions of the other branches?
What census is.
What is the process of surveying and counting populations in each district and changing them if needed?
A filibuster.
What is a technic used by the minority party to prevent a vote from taking place or talk the bill to death?
What caucuses are.
What is a group meeting to pursue common legislative objectives, ie. house caucus on missing and exploited children, congressional caucus for women's issues, human rights, etc.?
What MLK believes about being an outsider.
What is that no one who lives in the United States is an outsider?
List one power the legislative has over the other two branches.
What is legislative can impeach and remove the president and propose constitutional amendments?
Baker v Carr court case.
What is the supreme court decided courts could redistrict where lines are drawn illegally?
The 10 day rule of the president.
What is a rule where after 10 days after a bill is sent to the president if Congress is in session it passes and if not it is vetoed?
Responsibilities of both houses.
What is they have to keep a congressional record, hold session at the same time, have a quorum to do business, and 51% of members present?
Famous quote from the letters that those who ignored the problem.
What is "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"?
List judicial over executive powers.
What is the power to declare the executive notions unconstitutional and the chief justice presides over the impeachment of the president?