Framework
Thee great compromise at the constitutional convention led to the creation of a?
Bicameral
This house is more democratic of the two houses because the number of House members
House of Representatives
Voters in congressional district elect these membes.
House
The power structure within this is built largely along party lines.
Congress
This is the only House position actually named in the Constitution.
Speaker of the House
The creation of the House of Representatives pleased?
Large states
An official count of the countries population.
Census
Voters elect senators on a statewide or this basis.
At-large
This consists of all the members of a party within a house of congress.
Caucus
The Speaker is formally elected by the whole House every_____ amount of years.
Two years
The british parliament was a bicameral what?
Legislature
What passes legislation that adjusts the number of representatives states?
Congress
The direct popular election of senators did not occur until this year.
1913
Another name for caucus is?
Conference
After this person the Speaker is next in line of the Presidential succesion.
Vice President
This branch of National Government was the only one to be divided?
Legislature branch
Redrawing district boundaries to favor the political party that controls a state Legislature.
Gerrymandering
Before this amendment members of state Legislatures elected senators to represent state governments in the national governments.
Seventeenth amendment
In this chamber, the senate majority leadership consists of the majority leader and the majority whip.
Upper
Frederick A.C. Mulenberg of Pennsylvania elected in 1789 as the first what?
Speaker of the House
This type of government ensures that one branch will not violate the peoples freedom.
Divided government
The process of the state Legislatures redraw the boundaries of congressional districs to reflect those population shifts.
Reapportionment
This man quoted "with more coolness with more system, and with more wisdom, then the popular branch (the House)."
James Madison
The president of the Senate votes only to ______ in the Senate.
Break a tie
Joseph Cannon served from 1903-1911 for this state.
Illinois