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| What are the qualifications to be in the House of Representatives and how long is one term? |
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must be 25 years old and have been a citizen for 7 years
term is 2 years
Redistricts every 10 years |
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| What are the qualifications to be in the senate and how long is one term? |
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must be 30 years old and have been a citizen for 9 years
term is 9 years |
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| What are the qualifications to be president? |
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Must be 35 and have been a natural citizen your whole life
term is 4
max terms is 2 |
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| How many members were in the House of Representatives in 1911? |
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| How many memebers are in the house of representatives now? |
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| federal act that reapportions representatives based on population size |
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| Process whereby state legislatures redraw boundaries of congressional districts in the state to make them equal in population size. |
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| Redistricting that blatantly benefits one political party over the other or concentrates the voting impact of racial or ethinic groups. |
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| What is the 12th amendment? |
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| Seperate ballots are used for president and vice president. |
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| What is the 16th amendment? |
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| Gives congress the right to have an income tax |
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| What is the 17th amendment? |
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| people of the state elect the senate not legislators |
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| What is the 19th amendment |
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| Gave women the right to vote |
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| What is the 22nd amendment? |
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| Put a limit on presidential terms |
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| Process whereby the House brings charges against the president or other elected officials that will upon conviction by the senate remove him from office |
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| How many presidents have been impeached? |
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| What happened in Marbury vs. Madison? |
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| Established the concept of judicial review |
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| Who is the president of the Senate? |
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| What is a standing committee? |
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| Permanent committee in the House or Senate |
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| What is a select committee? |
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| Committee in the House or Senate that has very limited powers over a specific issue |
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| What is a special committee? |
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| Committee formed to address a specific issue area or controversy, typically for a defined period of time |
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| What is a conference or joint committee? |
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| Committee that includes members of both the House and Senate |
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| A delay tactic of extended speech designed to delay or block passage of a bill in the Senate |
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| Vote that can stop a filibuster and bring debate on a bill to an end |
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| Automatic veto that occurs when congress goes out of session within 10 days of submitting a bill to the president and the president has not signed it |
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| What is the succession of the presidency? |
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| President, Vice President, Speaker of the House, President pro tempore of the Senate, Secretary of State. |
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| What is the executive priviledge? |
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| Presidents right to engage in confidential communications with his advisers |
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| Who has the power to declare war? |
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| What is a federal administration? |
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| Federal organization responsible for running or administering a federal program. |
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| What is a Federal Commission? |
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| Federal organization with a narrow scope of authority over a specific area of jurisdiction |
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| What is a federal corporation? |
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| Federal organization that is similat to a business in that it provides a service or commodity for a price to the public but also recieves federal funding |
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| What was the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1881? |
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| Government jobs should be awarded based on merit |
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| What is the adversary process? |
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| Confrontational legal process under which each party presents its version of events |
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| Method of placing the determination of issues of fact in trial into the hands of fellow citizens |
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| Authority of courts to declare laws passed by congress and acts of the executive branch to be unconstitutional |
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| What is a writ of certiorary? |
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| Request to the supreme court that it reviews a lower court case |
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| Government prosecution of an individual for breaking the law |
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| Lawsuit by a person, organization, or government against another person, organization, or government |
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| judge made law in england and USA that results from gaps in statuatory law |
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| How many courts of appeal are there? |
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| Lawful authority of a court to hear a case |
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| What is original jurisdiction? |
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| Authority to hear a case directly from a petitioning party as in a trial |
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| What is appellate jurisdiction? |
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| Authority of a court to hear cases on appeals from lower courts |
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| Who nominated Sandra de OConnor? |
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| Who nominated Sonia Sotomayor? |
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| What is judicial activism? |
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| Judges who go beyond what the law requires and seek to impose their own policy preference on society through their judicial decisions |
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| What is judicial restraint? |
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| Respecting the decisions of other branches or through the concept of precedent the decisions of earlier judges |
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| Where do bills for revenue originate? |
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| In the House of Representatives |
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| What is the War Powers Resolution of 1973? |
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| stated the president has 48 hours to tell congress he has sent troops. congress then has ten days to decide if no the president must withdraw the troops in 90 days |
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| What is the only formal leadership position in the constitution? |
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| What are the duties of the speaker of the house? |
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| appoints all committee chairmen, approve all members committee assignments, and refers bills to the committee's |
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| What does the Majority leader do? |
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| works with the speaker of the house to decide which issues the party will consider and coordinates with committee leaders on holding hearings and reporting bills to the House floor |
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| Whip up support for bills |
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| What is the President Pro Tempore? |
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| person who is in place of the president of the senate |
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| What are the duties of the Pro Tempore? |
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recognizing individual senators who wish to speak
breaking ties
rules which motions are in order |
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| Who is the Committee Chair? |
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| Majority party member who leads committees |
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| Process where bill are written by members of the congressional committee |
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| Who is the Ranking member? |
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| What is the advocacy caucus? |
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| Group of members of congress from both parties who share a common background, economic interest, or opinion on an issue that reflects their constituients interests |
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| Who is the Hous Rules Committee? |
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| Gatekeeping committee that sets the guidelines for debating, changing, and voting on a bill. |
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| What is Franking priviledge? |
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| Special free mail that a House or Senate member can use to send letters to constituents |
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| Nickname for the power of the president to use the attention associated with the office to persuade the media, congress, and the public to support his policy positions |
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| General power of president to grant mercy for a federal criminal offense |
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| Decision to shorten a federal prison sentence |
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| presidential directive that usually involves implementing a specific law |
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| What is the federal budget? |
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| Budget of all federal programs, typically released in early Feb. |
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| What is the federal budget deficit? |
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| difference between the amount of money the federal government spends and the amount it receives from revenue |
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| authority of the president to block legislation passed by congress |
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| number of elected terms an official may serve |
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| What is the State of the Union Address? |
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| Speech given by the president to congress every January on the condition of the country |
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| What is the National Security Council? |
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| The presidents personal set of advisors on international security |
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| What is the court packing plan? |
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| FDR proposal to add new justices to the supreme court so that the supreme court would uphold his policies |
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| What is the Great Society? |
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| Lyndon B. Johnsons program for expanding the federal social welfare programs in health care, education, housing, and poverty. |
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| FDR program for ending the Great Depression through government intervention in the economy and a set of safety net programs for workers |
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| How many cabinet level departments are there? |
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| Set of executive departments responsible for carrying out federal policy in specific issue areas |
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| What is the cabinet secretary? |
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| head of a cabinet dept. and chief advisor to the president on the issue under the dept. jurisdiction |
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| What is the civil service? |
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| system of employment in the federal bureaucracy under which employees are chosen and promoted based on merit |
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| What are career civil servants? |
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| Federal employees hired through a merit based system to implement federal programs and who are expected to be neutral in their political affiliations |
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| What did the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 do? |
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| Replaced the civil service committee with the office of personnel management which oversees both civil servants and political appointees |
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| What are independent agencies? |
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| Federal organizations that have independent authority and do not operate within a cabinet department |
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| What are political appointees? |
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| Federal employees appointed by the president with the explicit task of carrying out his political and partisan agenda |
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| What is the federal reserve? |
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| National banking system created in 1913 to control the flow of money in the economy |
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| government health insaraunce for the poor |
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| What are district courts? |
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| Federal trial courts, at the bottom of the federal judicial hierarchy |
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| What was trial by jury inspired by? |
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| What was the Judiciary Act of 1789? |
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| Created the lower federal judiciary, district courts, and curcuit courts of appeals |
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| Practice of reaching decisions based on the previous decisions of other judges |
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| What is the rule of four? |
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| Supreme Court rule that grants review to a case if as few as four of the justices support review |
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| What is the Senate Judiciary Committee? |
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| Standing committee charged with reviewing judicial affairs, including federal court nominations |
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