Federal Legislature
The name of the federal legislature, made up of an upper house and a lower house...
What is Congress?
The name of the Florida state governor..
Who is Ron DeSantis?
The powers of Congress that are directly stated in the Constitution...
What are expressed powers?
Congress has the power to approve Presidential cabinet members, approve Presidential treaties, and try impeachment cases, but they CANNOT do these thing without this fraction of a vote....
Congress is this type of legislature, meaning "two houses"...
What is bicameral?
The name of the lower house; made up of 435 members; state representation is based on population...
What is the House of Representatives?
The Florida State Senate has this many members...
What is 40 members?
The chamber of Congress that acts as the "jury" in impeachment cases...
What is the Senate?
Congress has no control over other countries that are not part of the US; however Congress does have control over these smaller areas that are not part of the 50 contiguous United States...
What are territories?
The term for the political party that has the LEAST amount of members in a legislative house...
What is minority party?
The name of the upper house; has 100 members; state representation is equal with two members per state...
What is the Senate?
You have to be this old to be a Florida State Legislator...
What is 21 years old?
An import that Congress can tax...
What is a tariff?
Goods being sold by the United States to another country; congress cant tax these...
What are exports?
This person is considered the "President of the Senate"...
Who is the Vice President?
Who is the President?
The next Florida elections are held on this day...
What is November 5, 2024?
The drawing of district boundaries in a given state for political reasons...
What is gerrymandering?
Congress cannot suspend this citizen right; meaning they have the right to know what charges they are being arrested for and have the right to stand before a judge. Latin for "produce the body"...
What is Habeas Corpus?
The term for the process of counting the population, occurs every 10 years...
What is a census?
Implied powers of Congress reinforce the use of this clause in the Constitution that gives Congress the power to do whatever is "necessary and proper" to use their expressed powers...
The court case that declared that only Congress can regulate something that crosses state lines...
What is Gibbons v Ogden?
Congress cannot pass these laws, something that would punish people for something they did before there was a law against it...
What are ex post facto laws?
The term used for representatives running for re-election in Congress...
What are incumbents?