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Structure
Institutions
Lawmaking
Titles
Miscellaneous
100
Executive, Legislative, and Judical
What are the three branches of the U.S. government?
100
The movement to end a filibuster
What is cloture?
100
The first draft of a law
What is a bill?
100
The current Vice-President of the U.S.
Who is Joe Biden?
100
35 years old
What is the minimum age to be President?
200
bureaucrat, legislator, and an interest group
What is an Iron Triangle?
200
The people who are represented by elected officials
Who are constituents?
200
Sign into law, veto, pocket veto, let it sit for 10 days
What can the President do with a bill?
200
The Minority and Majority Leaders
What are the leadership positions in the House of Representatives?
200
January 20
When is the official inauguration in the U.S.?
300
Having a state and a federal government
What is Federalism?
300
The redrawing of district lines to favor one party at the expense of the other
What is gerrymandering?
300
It becomes a law without the president doing anything
What happens if the President lets a bill sit for 10 days?
300
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Who is John Roberts?
300
Benjamin Harrison
Who was the 23rd president of the U.S.?
400
The Senate and the House of Representatives
What two parts make up Congress?
400
The reallocation of House seats to the states on the basis of changes in state populations, as determined by the census
What is reapportionment?
400
This committee smooths out differences in the bill between the Senate and the House of Representatives
What is a Conference Committee
400
The senators for Indiana
Who are Joe Donnelly and Dan Coats?
400
535
What is the number of Congressman in the U.S. Congress?
500
Having two parts to Congress
What is Bicameralism?
500
the Supreme Court will hear a case if four Justices agree to do so
What is the Rule of Four?
500
At the end of a session of Congress, the President lets a bill sit and the bill becomes dissolved.
What happens when the President pocket vetoes a bill?
500
This position is the 17th in line for the presidency
What is the Secretary of Homeland Security?
500
Kade's Birthday
What is December 4?