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The 24th State
1821
Missouri Compromise
1945
Winchester's Favorite State
100
The name for a law that may originate in the state legislature but must then be put to a popular vote.
What is a referendum?
100
The name for a law that begins with a collection of citizens' signatures and then moves to a popular vote.
What is an initiative?
100
The number of days the governor has to sign or veto a bill.
What is 15?
100
The number of members in the Missouri House of Representatives.
What is 163?
100
The number of members in the Missouri Senate.
What is 34?
200
The name for the combined houses of the Missouri legislature.
What is the General Assembly?
200
Word for the illegal practice of hiring a relative to fill a government job.
What is nepotism?
200
Word for the prohibition against punishing a person for an act that was not a crime at the time the act was committed.
What is ex post facto?
200
Word for the prohibition against trying a person for the same crime twice.
What is double jeopardy?
200
Word for the right of the accused to be presented with a written explanation of charges.
What is habeas corpus?
300
Number of consecutive terms of office the governor can serve.
What is 2?
300
Portion of jurors needed to reach a guilty verdict in civil court cases.
What is two-thirds?
300
Portion of jurors needed to reach a guilty verdict in criminal court cases.
What is 100%?
300
Part of state government that has the power to impeach an elected official.
What is the House of Representatives?
300
This happens to a bill if the governor does not sign it within the allotted time.
What is it automatically becomes law?
400
The house of the Missouri legislature that can write, amend, or reject bills.
What is both houses have all these powers?
400
Categories of courts within the Missouri judicial system.
What is Circuit Court, Court of Appeals, and Supreme Court?
400
The second highest court in the state of Missouri.
What is the Court of Appeals?
400
Year the current Missouri Constitution was written.
What is 1945?
400
When Missouri became a state.
What is 1821?
500
This organized model best describes the executive branch of state government.
What is industrial?
500
This organizational model best describes the legislative branch of state government.
What is collegial?
500
Not a power or responsibility of the governor.
What is approve amendments to the Constitution?
500
After the lieutenant governor, the third in order to take over as governor.
What is the President Pro Tem of the Senate?
500
Qualifications to qualify to be governor.
What is at least 30 years old, a U.S. citizen for at least 15 years, and a resident of Missouri for at least 10 years?