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DCGov Chapter4 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Delegates | people with authority to represent others at a conference or convention |
| Trustees | lawmakers who vote based on their conscience and judgment, not the views of their constituents |
| Partisans | lawmakers who owe their first allegiance to their political party and vote according to the party line |
| Politicos | lawmakers who attempt to balance the basic elements of the trustee, delegate, and partisan roles |
| Bill | a proposed law presented to a legislative body for consideration |
| Floor consideration | the process by which proposed laws are considered and acted upon by the full membership of the House or Senate |
| Oversight function | review by legislative committees of the policies and programs of the executive branch |
| Adjourn | suspend, as in a session of Congress |
| Recess | a time when both houses of Congress temporarily suspend business |
| Special session | an extraordinary session of a legislative body, called to deal with an emergency situation |
| Franking privilege | benefit allowing members of Congress to mail letters and other materials postage-free |
| Apportioned | distributed, as in seats in a legislative body |
| Reapportion | redistribute, as in seats in a legislative body |
| Single-member district | electoral district from which one person is chosen by the voters for each elected office |
| At-large | election of an officeholder by the voters of an entire governmental unit (e.g. a State or country) rather than by the voters of a district or subdivision |
| Gerrymandering | the drawing of electoral district lines to the advantage of a party or group |
| Off-year elections | congressional election that occurs between presidential election years |
| Incumbent | the current officeholder |
| Continuous body | governing unit (e.g. the United States Senate) whose seats are never all up for election at the same time |
| Constituencies | the people and interests that an elected official represents |
| Expressed powers | those delegated powers of the National Government that are spelled out, expressly, in the Constitution; also called the "enumerated powers" |
| Implied powers | those delegated powers of the National Government that are suggested by the expressed powers set out in the Constitution; those "necessary and proper" to carry out the expressed powers |
| Inherent powers | powers the Constitution is presumed to have delegated to the National Government because it is the government of a sovereign state within the world community |
| Commerce power | exclusive power of Congress to regulate interstate and foreign trade |
| Public debt | all of the money borrowed by the government and not yet repaid, plus the accrued interest on that money; also called the national debt or federal debt |
| Legal tender | any kind of money that a creditor must, by law, accept in payment for debts |
| Eminent domain | the power of a government to take private property for public use |
| Naturalization | the legal process by which citizens of one country become citizens of another |
| Necessary and Proper clause | the final clause of Article 1, Section 8 in the Constitution, which gives Congress the power to make all laws "necessary and proper" for executing its powers |
| Strict constructionist | one who argues for a narrow interpretation of the Constitution's provisions, particularly those granting powers to the Federal Government |
| Liberal constructionist | one who argues for a broad interpretation of the Constitution's provisions, particularly those granting powers to the Federal Government |
| Impeach | to bring formal charges against a public official |
| Acquit | to find not guilty of a charge |
| Perjury | the act of lying under oath |
| subpoena | an order for a person to appear and to produce documents or other requested materials |
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