Legislative Branch
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A Congressperson gets paid this much compensation per year.
What is $174,000 per year?
How is this number decided?
This many people are in the senate.
What is 100?
Do these people have to live in any specific area of their state?
This many people are in the House of representatives.
What is 435?
Do these people have to live in any specific area of their state?
This clause of the Constitution allows for the creation and implementation of implied powers.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
This clause is listed at the end of Article 1, Section 8.
This term is a synonym for expressed, meaning specified or written down.
What is enumerated?
This term describes the general public that are represented by a specific elected official.
What are constituents?
What is a representatives responsibility to their constituents?
Would a Senator or House Rep. be more sensitive to the needs of constituents?
This person is the president of the senate.
Who is the Vice President?
What jobs does this person do in the Senate?
This person is the head of the House.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
How is this person selected?
This implied power is drawn from the expressed power to raise and manage an army.
What is calling a draft?
This group of expressed powers gives Congress the ability to declare official conflict with another nation.
What are 'the war powers'?
A Congressperson who votes in the interests of their constituents follows this model of representation.
What is the delegate model?
Other representative models include:
trustee (based on personal knowledge)
partisan (on party lines)
politico (mix)
This is the length of a term in the Senate.
What is 6 years?
This is the length of a term in the House.
What is two years?
This implied power is drawn from Congress's ability to raise money, or appropriate funds.
What is assign direct and indirect taxes?
This group of expressed powers gives Congress the ability to regulate trade between states and with other countries.
What are 'the commerce powers'?
Describing our own Congress, this term means a representative body with two chambers.
What is bicameral?
You have to be this old to serve in the Senate, and a resident of your state for this many years.
What is 35 years old and 9 years?
You have to be this old to be in the House of Representatives, and a resident of your state for this many years.
What is 25 years old and 7 years?
This section of Article 1 contains the 'Elastic Clause'.
What is Article 1, Section 8?
This expressed power of Congress allows them to vote for the President in the case that their is a tie in this body.
What is the Electoral College?
Candidates must gain ___ or more votes to win, if there is a tie wherein no one gets ___ electoral votes, the tie breaker vote happens in Congress.
This plan was created by a populous state, and presented to the Constitutional Conventions to propose a population based system of representation.
What is the Virginia Plan?
What was the opposing plan?
This tactic of minority parties results from a lack of time limits on discussion of a bill.
What is a filibuster?
This type of committee sets up time limits and other restrictions when discussing a bill on the House Floor.
What is a Rules Committee?
Other types of Congressional Committees:
Standing
Select
Joint/Conference
This viewpoint would have fewer or no implied powers, but rather a strict interpretation of the words of the Constitution.
What is a strict constructionist?
What would be the opposite of this position?
This article of the Constitution describes the function and enumerated powers of the Legislative Branch.
What is Article 1?
Most enumerated powers are listed specifically in Article 1, Section 8.