Foundations
Number of branches in the US government
What is 3?
Meaning of impeachment
What is "to bring charges against"?
What is a district?
Presides over Senate meetings
Who is the Vice President?
A politician that has lost an election but is still in office to fulfill his or her term
What is a lame duck?
the system of government in the United States
What is a republic?
Chamber with the power to impeach elected officials
What is the House of Representatives?
Determines now many representatives each state gets
What is population?
Number of senators per state
What is 2?
Dividing congressional districts with the intention of increasing the power of one political party
What is gerrymandering?
Locke refers to three natural rights
What are "life, liberty, and happiness"?
Chamber with the power to convict or acquit an impeached official
What is the Senate?
Who presides over the US House of Representatives?
Who is the speaker of the house?
In the absence of the Vice President, he presides over the Senate
Who is the president pro tempore?
Talking a bill to death
What is a filibuster?
What is "consent to be governed"?
Number of US presidents that have been impeached
What is 3?
Current representative for Texas's 27th district
Who is Michael Cloud?
Total number of senators in the US Senate
What is 200?
For congressional business to occur, more than half of the members must be present. This is known as a . . .
What is a quorum?
theory that contend that the state arises out of a contractual agreement between people of a free society who relinquish some of their absolute freedom in order to live in a more orderly way
What is social contract theory?
What is enumerated?
The total number of representatives in the US House of Representatives
What is 435?
Current US senators representing the state of Texas
Who are Ted Cruz and John Coryn?
A law that retroactively changes the legal consequences of actions that were committed
What is an ex post facto law?