Chapter 6
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
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| Bicameral | show 🗑
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| Census | show 🗑
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| show | A person from a legislator's district
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| Gerrymander | show 🗑
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| Majority Party | show 🗑
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| show | in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, the political party to which fewer than half the members belong
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| Standing Committee | show 🗑
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| show | Years of service, which is used as a consideration for assigning committee members
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| Expressed Powers | show 🗑
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| show | Powers that Congress has that are not stated explicitly in the Constitution
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| show | clause that gives Congress the right to make all laws "necessary and proper"
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| Impeach | show 🗑
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| Writ of Habeas Corpus | show 🗑
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| show | A law that punishes a person accused of a crime without a trial or a fair hearing in court
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| show | A law that would allow a person to be punished for an action that was not against the law
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| Franking Privelage | show 🗑
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| Lobbyist | show 🗑
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| Casework | show 🗑
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| Pork-Barrel Project | show 🗑
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| Joint Resolution | show 🗑
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| show | an organization of people with common interest that try to influence government
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| Filibuster | show 🗑
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| Cloture | show 🗑
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| show | Voting in which "yea" or "no" is used
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| show | when members stand to vote for a bill
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| show | members voice votes in turn
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| show | refusal to sign a bill or resolution
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| Pocket Veto | show 🗑
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Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
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