Vocabulary
Drawing of political district boundaries to favor one party.
What is gerrymandering?
Who begins or initiates the impeachment process?
What is the House of Representatives?
What political party did Richard M. Nixon belong to?
What is the Republican Party?
Number of people in U.S. Senate.
What is 100?
A committee that includes members from both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
What is a joint committee?
When a legislative body initiates charges against a public official for misconduct.
What is impeachment?
What is the fraction needed to move forward with the impeachment process in the House of Representatives?
What is 2/3 ?
Where was the Democratic National Headquarters in 1974?
What was the Watergate Hotel?
Number of people in U.S. House of Representatives.
What is 435?
A temporary committee formed for a new or specific problem.
What is a Select Committee?
The official count of the population.
What is the census?
Where is the impeachment trial held?
What is in the U.S. Senate?
Who did POTUS Clinton have an affair with?
Who is Monica Lewinsky?
Number of years the Census is taken.
What is every 10 years?
What type of power is the right of the government to draft men or women for combat/military service?
What are Implied Powers?
The specific and listed powers granted to the U.S. federal government by the Constitution.
What are Expressed Powers?
Who is in charge of overseeing the impeachment trial?
What is the VPOTUS or Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
What crime did POTUS Clinton commit while under oath?
What is perjury?
Who is the leader of the House of Representatives?
Who is the Speaker of the House?
Congress does not have the power to declare war - true or false?
What is false?
Powers not explicitly listed in the U.S. Constitution but are understood as necessary.
What are Implied Powers?
What are the 3 categories of impeachment crimes?
What are Bribery, Treason or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors?
Who replaced Nixon as POTUS?
Who is Gerald Ford?
Who is the leader of the Senate of the VPOTUS isn't available?
What/who is President pro Tempore?
If the president nominates a candidate for the Supreme Court, the Senate may not reject the candidate. - True or False?
What is False?