Legislature Overview
The two houses that make up the legislative branch
The number of seats in the House of Representatives
What is 435?
The powers of the legislative branch that are explicitly written in the U.S. Constitution
What are the expressed powers?
The powers of Congress are unwritten but are necessary for Congress to fulfill its other powers
The nonlegislative power Congress receives from Article V of the U.S. Constitution
What is the power to ammend the U.S. Constitution?
The article in the United States that gives the legislative branch power
What is Article I?
The number of seats in the Senate
What is 100?
The group of early U.S. citizens argued that Congress should primarily use the expressed powers
What are the strict construcitonists?
The group of early U.S. citizens argued that Congress should only use the implied powers often
What are the liberal constructionists?
The powers Congress has to check the executive branch in lawmaking
What is the veto overide?
The number of years a term lasts in Congress
What is two-years?
The term length of senators
What is six-years?
The branch of the U.S. government that currently has many of the expressed powers given to the legislative branch of the U.S. Constution including many of the war powers
What is the executive branch?
Under this expressed power, Congress might argue that it has the ability to create the Internal Revanue Service (IRS)
What is the power to lay and collect taxes?
When attempting to remove a government official from office, this house of Congress has the power to accuse the official of a crime?
What is the House of Representatives?
The name of the type of represenative who votes based on their own judgment, not their voters
What is a trustee?
The basis of apportionment in the House of Representatives
What is state populations?
The act of Congress which was an attempt to limit the president's ability to send the U.S. military into combat without congressional permission
What is the War Powers Resolution?
Under this expressed power, Congress might argue that it has the ability to draft U.S. citizens into the military.
When attempting to remove a government official from office, this house of Congress has the power to judge if the official is guilty
What is the Senate?
The leader of the House of Representatives who manages legislative business in the House chamber
What is the speaker of the House?
The form of gerrymandering that invovles drawing district lines to include as many of your opponents voters in one district
What is packing?
The Supreme Court case, Gibbons v. Ogden set the precedent that Congress could this expressed power to manage many aspects of the U.S. economy
What is the commerce power?
What is a national bank?
The two executive actions that Congress must approve
What are making appointments and treaties?