Congress
This is consisting of two branches or chambers in a government.
What is bicameral?
This includes expressed powers, implied powers, and inherent powers.
What are the main powers of congress?
This is the number of members in the House.
What is 435?
This is the number of members in the Senate?
What is 100?
This is a vote by which Senators vote yes or no.
What is a roll-call vote?
This is the term for the people represented by a member of Congress.
What are constituents?
This includes powers that are only suggested by the constitution. For example, to establish federal reserve systems of banks, to punish tax evaders,to regulate the sale of commodities, and to require states to meet certain conditions to qualify for federal funding.
What are implied powers?
These include being at least 25 years old, have been a U.S. citizen for at least seven years, and live in the state they represent.
What are the formal qualifications for the House of Representatives?
These include being at least 30 years old, being a U.S. citizen for at least nine years, and a resident of the state they are representing.
What are the formal qualifications of the Senate?
This includes approving the bill or vetoing the bill.
How the President can make a bill a law?
This is the power of congress to charge government officials with wrongdoing and bring them to trial.
What is impeachment?
This includes powers that literally expressed in the constitution. For example, coining money, collecting taxes, regulating commerce, raising and maintaining armed forces, and declaring war.
What are expressed powers?
This is done every 10 years to determine the population of the states.
What is a census?
This is the fraction of votes needed to pass a decision in the senate.
What is two-thirds of a vote?
These are joint resolutions, concurrent resolutions, and nonbinding resolutions.
What are the measures considered by Congress?
This is the proportional distribution of seats among the House of Representatives, based off population.
What is apportionment?
These are powers held by a sovereign state. For example, controlling national borders, acquiring new territories, and defending the state from revolution.
What are inherent powers?
This is to manipulate the boundaries of an electoral constituency.
What is gerrymandering?
This is a procedure where one or more members of congress debate over a proposed piece of legislation to delay a decision being made
What is filibustering?
This committee resolves disagreements on a particular bill.
What is the conference committee?
This is a bill that sets aside funds for a specific purpose.
What is appropriation?
This is the house that breaks a presidential tie.
What is the House of Representatives?
This person is responsible for ensuring that the House passes legislation supported by the majority party.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
This person has the power to make treaties and to appoint ambassadors.
Who is the President of the Senate?
This is bringing a bill out of a committee and to the floor for consideration without a report from the committee by discharging the committee from further consideration of a bill or resolution.
What is a discharge petition?