Constitution: Legislative Branch
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| 2 chambers of Congress | show 🗑
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| show | Article 1
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| current Speaker of the House | show 🗑
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| show | Capitol Building
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| show | Washington D.C.
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| main duty of the legislative branch | show 🗑
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| term of a senator | show 🗑
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| term of a representative | show 🗑
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| # of senators in the Senate | show 🗑
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| show | 435
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| show | Senate
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| show | House
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| show | Senate
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| approves presidential appointments | show 🗑
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| show | House
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| show | Senate
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| show | Senate
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| show | House
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| show | Vice President
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| show | 30 years old
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| age for a representative | show 🗑
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| citizenship qualification of senator | show 🗑
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| show | 7 years
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| senators from Illinois | show 🗑
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| show | someone who believes the national government should be very active in helping individuals and communities
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| conservative | show 🗑
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| extremist | show 🗑
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| show | Congress shall “make all laws which shall be necessary and proper"; stretching the powers of the federal government
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| show | a law that turns an act into a crime after the act has been committed
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| full faith and credit clause | show 🗑
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| show | Powers not expressed in the Constitution believed to be valid
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| lobbies | show 🗑
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| show | a long speech that lasts for a day or more / prevents action from happening on the floor of Congress
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| show | when the president does not act at all for 10 days on the bill and Congress is no longer in session after 10 days, the bill is automatically vetoed
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| show | 2/3
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| show | a simple majority
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| how often does a census take place | show 🗑
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| president pro tempore | show 🗑
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| current Vice President | show 🗑
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| show | Joe Biden
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| show | the practice of exchanging political and legislative favors
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| show | spending that is intended to benefit constituents of a politician in return for their political support
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| number of powers given to Congress | show 🗑
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| show | an act passed by a legislature to punish a person without a trial
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| show | an order to a jailor to bring a prisoner to court or to set them free
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| extradition | show 🗑
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| expressed powers | show 🗑
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| show | only time that the Vice President is allowed to vote in the Senate
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| 2 years | show 🗑
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| show | governor of the state makes a temporary appointment
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| show | a special election takes place in the district where the vacancy is
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| impeachment | show 🗑
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| special committee | show 🗑
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| powers of Congress in 3 groups | show 🗑
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| nickname of the Senate | show 🗑
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| show | lower body
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| examples of expressed powers of Congress | show 🗑
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| show | regulate TV stations, nuclear energy, and airlines
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| show | members of Congress cannot accept gifts from foreign countries, hold titles of nobility, or cannot vote to give themselves pay raises during its term
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| show | tax, borrow money, charter banks, establish courts, encourage agriculture and industry, protect public health, and provide public welfare
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| show | powers that both the federal government and states have
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| show | any powers not delegated by the Constitution to the federal government are reserved for the states
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| show | education, traffic, doctors, state lands, state taxes, recreation, intrastate commerce, etc.
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| show | city where Congress first met
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| show | senators and representatives can serve for this many terms
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| # of electoral votes that Illinois has | show 🗑
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| show | 118th
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