Checks and Balences
What is the Judicial Branch?
Each state gets this many Senators.
What is 2 senetors
This is the process of state legislators redrawing district lines to gain an advantage for their party in the next House election.
What is gerrymandering?
This clause allows Congress to do anything necessary and proper for them to do their job.
What is the Necessary and Proper clause, or Elastic Clause?
Most bills enacted by Congress require a signature from this executive.
Who is the President?
An example of a check on this branch is that the Senate has to approve all federal Judicial nominees.
What is the executive branch?
This is used by the minority party in the Senate to extend debate on a bill.
What is a Filibuster?
Who is the Speaker of the House?
This is a power explicitly given to Congress by the Constitution.
What are enumerated powers?
Who is the Vice President?
This branch checks Congress by vetoing bills and sending them back down.
What is the Executive Branch?
This is the leader of the majority party in the Senate and is third in the line of succession.
What is the President Pro. Temp.
This is the number of voting members in the House.
What is 435?
The Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden reaffirmed this Enumerated power of Congress.
What is the Commerce Clause?
This is where most bills originate.
What is the House of Representatives?
This is a check on the executive that enables Congress to pass a bill without a presidential signature.
What is overriding a Veto?
These are members of the Senate whose responsibility is to gather votes for their party.
What are whips?
This is the process of deciding how many representatives a state gets in the House.
What is apportionment?
This is where all revenue bills originate.
What is the House of Representatives?
This is the only way to pass a law without a signature by the head executive.
What is overriding a veto?
This is a check on the bureaucracy, where Congress calls in bureaucrats to testify in front of a congressional committee.
What is congressional oversight?
This is how a majority party can override a filibuster with a 3/4's majority.
What is Culture?
This standing committee is responsible for setting the rules for debate in the House.
What is the House Rules Committee?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is an example of this power. (Implied v. Enumerated)
What is an Implied power?
This house in Congress has less strict rules of debate due to the smaller number of members.
What is the Senate?