The lawmaking, or legislative, body of our national government.
What is Congress?
100
This state plan was based on population during the Constitutional Convention.
What is the Virginia Plan?
100
This is the amount of time that a member of the House of Representatives serves.
What is a two year term?
100
The Senate contains this many members, two from each state.
What is 100 members?
100
A draft of a proposed law.
What is a bill?
200
This word refers to a two-house legislature, such as our legislative branch is established.
What is bicameral?
200
This state plan wanted a one house legislature that was based on equal representation.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
200
The qualifications to run for the House include being a US citizen for 7 years, living in the state you represent, and this.
What is be 25 years old?
200
This individual is the President of the Senate.
Who is the Vice President?
200
This part of the lawmaking process acts as a filter within Congress to separate which bills will make it to the House or Senate floor.
What are Committees?
300
A bill that has gone through the lawmaking process, been approved, and set forth as a “rule for the nation”.
What is a law?
300
The redrawing of district lines to favor the party in power.
What is Gerrymandering?
300
This is the most powerful member of the House of Representatives.
Who is Speaker of the House?
300
The qualifications for the Senate include being 30 years old, living in the state you represent, and this.
What is being a US citizen for 9 years?
300
This is when Senators occupy the floor to delay the vote of a bill.
What is filibuster?
400
This state developed "The Great Compromise" of the Constitutional Convention that incorporated two different plans presented and gave us the Congress we have today.
What is Connecticut?
400
This survey, taken every 10 years, accounts for the population shifts in the country and adjusts the number of representatives in Congress.
What is the census?
400
All bills relating to this must originate in the House of Representatives.
What is revenue?
400
The Senate has the right to approve federal officials, as well as the right to do this on all foreign agreements.
What is ratification?
400
This is when the President does not sign a bill and Congress has already adjourned, therefore killing the bill.
What is Pocket Veto?
500
Redrawing districts to make them approximately equal in population.
What is apportionment?
500
This Constitutional amendment allowed the Direct Election of Senators by the people in 1913.
What is the 17th Amendment?
500
The House of Representatives may initiate this, which places charges on an elected official.
What is impeachment?
500
Senate members serve a 6 year term, but only 1/3 of the Senate runs for election every two years. This election system is known as this.
What is a staggered election system?
500
A vote to stop a filibuster, allowing only 1 hour of debate time per Senator.