Chapter 6
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| BICAMERAL | A legislature consisting of two parts, or houses.
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| CENSUS | Or population count taken by the Census Bureau, Congress adjust, or changes, the number of representatives given to each state.
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| CONSTITUENT | People represented.
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| GERRYMANDER | An oddly shaped district designed to increase the voting stregth of a particular group.
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| MAJORITY PARTY | The political party to which more than half the members belong.
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| MINORITY PARTY | In both the House of Respresentative and the Senate, the politcal party to which fewer than half the members belong.
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| STANDING COMMITTEE | Permanent committe that continues work from session to session in its Congress.
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| SENIORITY | Years of service.
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| EXPRESSED POWERS | Power that Congress has that are specifically in the constitution.
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| IMPLIED POWERS | Powers that Congress has that are not stated explicitly in the Constitution.
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| ELASTIC CLAUSE | Clause in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution that gives Congress the right to make all laws "necessery and proper" to carry out its expressed powers.
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| IMPEACH | Accuse affocials of misconduct in office.
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| WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS | A court order that requires police to bring a prisoner to court to explain police to bring a prisoner to court to explain why they are holding the person.
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| BILL OF ATTAINDER | Laws that punish a pearson without a jury trail.
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| EX POST FACTO LAW | Laws that make an act a crime after the act has been committed.
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| FRANKING PRIVILEGE | The right of senators and representatives to send job-related mail without paying postage.
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| LOBBYIST | People hired by privite groups to influence government decision makers.
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| CASEWORK | Help in dealing with the federal government.
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| PORK-BARREL PROJECT | Government projects and grants that primarily benefit the home district or state.
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| JOINT RESOLUTION | A resolution that is passed by both houses of congress.
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| SPECIAL-INTEREST GROUP | Organizations made up of people with common interests.
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| FILIBUSTER | Talk a bill to death.
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| CLOTURE | A procedure used in the Senate to limit debate on a bill.
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| VOICE VOTE | A voting method in which those in favor say "Yea" and those againts say "NO".
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| STANDING VOTE | In Congress, when members stand to be counted for a voote on a bill.
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| ROLL-CALL-VOTE | A voting method in the Senate in which members voice their votes in turn.
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| VETO | Refuse to sign the bill.
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| POCKET VETO | President's power to kill a bill, if Congress is not in session, by not signing ir for 10.
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