A system of government where the legislature is divided into two houses.
What is bicameralism?
100
The minimum age of House members
What is 25?
100
Powers of Congress written in the Constitution
What are expressed powers?
100
The house of Congress responsible for approving treaties.
What is the Senate?
100
The most dominant political unit in the world.
What is the state?
200
A voting system where all citizens in a State vote for their Senatorial candidates.
What is at-large?
200
A member of Congress that votes how his/her constituents would want them to.
What is a delegate?
200
When the government spends more money than it makes.
What is a deficit?
200
The responsibility of committees to monitor executive agencies.
What is oversight function?
200
The levels of government involved in American federalism?
What are National and State governments?
300
The shaping of districts to benefit one's political party.
What is gerrymandering?
300
A person who interprets the Constitution to grant the national government greater power.
Who is a liberal constructionist?
300
The Supreme Court case describing the creation of a National Bank as necessary and proper.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
300
The house of Congress that chooses the President if there is a tie.
What is the House of Representatives?
300
The structure of Congress under the Articles of Confederation.
What is unicameral?
400
A reason for bicameralism providing fair and equal representation of the States in Congress.
What is practical reason?
400
How Senators were chosen before the 17th Amendment.
What are State legislatures?
400
Powers derived from the Necessary and Proper Clause.
What are implied powers?
400
The amount of votes necessary for the Senate to remove the President from office.
What is 2/3?
400
The two U.S. Senators representing the State of Michigan.
Who are Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters?
500
The Supreme Court case ensuring States make sure all congressional districts have about the same number of people so that one person's vote is equal to another's.
What is Wesberry v. Sanders?
500
The group that determines the number of seats in the House of Representatives
What is the Census Bureau?
500
The financial power of Congress strengthened by Gibbons v. Ogden
What is the Commerce Power?
500
The house of Congress responsible for bringing criminal charges against the President.
What is the House of Representatives?
500
The President that would have been removed from office had he not already resigned.