How a Bill Becomes Law
The current Speaker of the House
Who is Nancy Pelosi?
The journal that each house must keep
What is the Congressional Record?
Also known as the Necessary and Proper Clause
What is the elastic clause?
This person wrote the letters from Birmingham
Who is MLK?
100 members, 6 years terms
What is the Senate?
A senator that stalls during debates on bills
What is a filibuster?
When at least 51% of members are present on the floor
What is a quorum?
to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.
What is the commerce clause?
MLK's method of protesting civil rights
What are non-violent protests?
In charge of the Executive Branch
Who is the president of the United States?
This is when the president rejects a bill
What is a veto?
Free postage on all mail to constituents
What is Franking Privilege?
respect the "public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state."
What is the full faith and credit clause?
The goal for writing the letters from birmingham
What are civil rights?
The amount of representatives in the HoR
What is 435?
This term means that they kill the bill in committee
What is pigeonhole?
When a member is thrown out of office for bad behavior
What is expulsion?
prevents a state from treating citizens of other states in a discriminatory manner
What is the privileges and immunities clause?
This is the date the letters of birmingham were written
April 16, 1963
Limited gov, natural rights, popular sovereignty, republicanism, social contract
What are the founding principals?
The final bill after both houses come to agree on differences in a bill
What is conference report?
This group selects the president in an electoral college tie
Who is the House of Representatives?
The clause says that all bills for raising revenue must start in the U.S. House of Representatives
What is the origination clause?
Racial discrimination is illegal in most places, discrimination on race is illegal in employment, strengthened voting rights
What was the civil rights act of 1964?
The type of democracy that most fits with the current United States
What is a pluralist democracy?