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100
The number of House members, the length of their term and number assigned to each state.
What is 435, 2 years and dependent on population.
100
The number of Senate members, the length of their term and number assigned to each state.
What is 100, 6years and 2 from each state.
100
Three ways a search can be conducted without a search warrant?
What is consent, plain sight, subsequent to an arrest, border crossing, emergency situation, pursuit, terry search
100
The one word that would characterize the United States' Foreign Policy for most of this nation's history.
What is isolationism?
100
Censorship before publication
What is prior restraint?
200
The term applied to the free mail that members of Congress are given.
What is the franking privilege?
200
The definition of how a filibuster works.
What is a tool used by the minority party in which using the unlimited debate in the Senate a vote on a bill is delayed.
200
What the case of Brandenburg v Ohio decided.
What is that violent speech can only be censored if it is likely to produce violence.
200
The name of the policy that was used to confront the Soviet Union from 1949 to 1979.
What is Containment?
200
The first names of the members of your team?
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300
The role that the Rules Committee plays in the House of Representative.
What is controlling the flow of legislation coming out of the House committee system onto the floor of the House for debate?
300
the name and process in which a filibuster is killed
What is a cloture vote with 2/3 of the Senate
300
The concept that evidence illegally obtained can't be used during a trial
What is the exclusionary rule?
300
The first time the USA fought a war outside of North America?
What is the Spanish American War?
300
Drawing political districts to benefit one political party.
What is Gerrymandering?
400
The steps that a House bill must go through in order to reach the president.
What is Bills Intro, committee assigned, subcommittee assigned, hearings, subcommittee mark up, committee markup, rules committee, House floor.
400
What is the process in which a bill must go through in the Senate?
What is Bills Intro, committee assigned, subcommittee assigned, hearings, subcommittee mark up, committee markup,Senate floor.
400
The three prongs of the O'Brien Test
What is a government subject, a valid reason and an alternative method of communication?
400
The most important consideration for American Foreign Policy?
What is National Security?
400
This allows the religious groups to meet in school.
What is the Equal Access Act?
500
the process in which the speaker of the house is chosen.
What is the a vote by the majority party.
500
a committee created for a short time in order to investigate a situation.
What is select committee
500
The amendments that the right to counsel and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment are found in.
What is the 6th and 8th
500
What is one power the president has over foreign policy and one power Congress has?
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500
The committee that creates a compromise version of a bill that differs in a House and Senate version.
What is the conference committee?