This is the difference between reapportionment and redistricting.
What is reapportionment is the act of changing the number of U.S. representatives a State will have based on changes in population as reflected in the most recent decennial census, while redistricting is the act of redrawing political district boundaries?
100
This is the current number of Representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives.
What is 435?
100
This is the name given to someone who is the current office-holder.
What is an "incumbent"?
100
This device, used in the 1930s by London nannies who lacked adequate space to take care of the children in their care, was used to suspend infants outside of a window.
This is the term given to fake grass-roots lobbying.
What is astroturf lobbying?
200
These are the three constitutional requirements for serving as a U.S. Senator.
What are age (at least 30 years old); U.S. citizenship (for at least 9 years); and residency (in the State you'll represent)?
200
This is the term used to describe someone who does manual or industrial work.
What is a "blue-collar" worker?
200
This case requires U.S. congressional districts to be roughly equal in population.
What is Wesberry v. Sanders?
200
This refers to a system where voters in each congressional district in a State elect one of that State's representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives.
What is the "single-member district" system?
300
These are the constitutional requirements for serving as a congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives.
What are age (25 years), U.S. citizenship (at least 7 years), and residency (must live in the State where your district is located)?
300
This haircut for men is short in the front and sides and long in the back.
What is a mullet?
300
This is what the 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution did.
What is it changed the way we elect U.S. Senators from State legislatures to direct election by the people?
300
This refers to the type of politician who votes that way she thinks is right, even if that means voting against how a majority of her constituents want her to vote.
What is a trustee?
300
These are the names of the gentlemen who currently serve as Alabama's two U.S. Senators.
What is Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions?
400
This is the benefit given only to incumbents that allows them to send mail without paying postage.
What is the franking privilege?
400
This congressional election occurs in years (like 2014) when we do not elect a president.
What is an off-year election?
400
This book is thought to be the longest overdue book ever returned in America.
What is The Law of Nations, by Emmerich de Vattel (borrowed by George Washington)?
400
Each ___ of Congress is made up of two 1-year ______s.
What is "term" and "session"?
400
這是一個不錯的噴嚏
What is "That was a nice sneeze."?
500
These are the three reasons we have a bicameral legislature.
What is historical (see Parliament; state legislatures); practical (resolved dispute between big and small states); and theoretical (the saucer that cools the cup)?
500
This case held that state-imposed term limits are unconstitutional.
What is U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton?
500
This explains James Madison's view of interest groups.
What is he thought that, if left unchecked, these groups (which he called "factions") could dominate the formation of policy?
500
This is the principle reason given in your book for why only a handful of seats in the House of Representatives are at risk in any given election.
What is gerrymandering?
500
This is the number and the point of the most recent amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
What is the 27th Amendment, which prohibits Congress from granting itself a pay raise that takes place before a congressional election?