Civics-Midterms
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- Apprioriation
- provide money for each program
- District 5: whose in it?
- Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi
- Eminent Domain
- right of government to take private property(usually land) for public use
- Electoral College: how many members from D.C.?
- 3 members
- How many people are in the Senate?
- 100
- Bills of Attainer
- laws that punish a person without a jury trial
- Electoral College: How many votes are need to win?
- 270 out of 538 votes
- Federal Districts: how many?
- 12 districts
- Powers of president
- carry out laws passed by congress;power to veto,reject bills;call congress into special session;commander in chief, make treaties, appoint judges and top government officials;pardon convicted criminals
- Reserved Powers
- powers to state government
- 3/5's Compromise
- every five enslaved persons would count as three free persons
- federalism
- form of government in which power is divided between federal, national government and the states
- Cloture
- ending a filibuster by a 3/5's vote
- Presidential Succesion Order?
- Pres.,V.P., speaker of the house, pres. pro tempore, secretary of state, secretary of defense
- Majority Party is the:
- Democrats
- Trade Sanctions
- efforts to punish another nation by impsing trade barriers
- Appellate jurisdiction
- authority of a court to hear a case appealed from a lower court
- How many terms do Senators serve?
- 6 year terms
- Spoils system
- government jobs given to people as a reward for their political support
- Elastic Clause
- allows Congress to stretch its powers to meet new needs
- Electoral College: how many members?
- 538 members
- Slander
- spoken lies
- Libel
- printed lies
- Implied powers of Congress
- propose constitutional amendments;count electoral votes;impeachment;approval of all president nominations
- Ex Post Facto Laws
- laws that make an act a crime after the act has been commited.
- Writ of Habeas Corpus
- court order that requires police to bring a prisoner to court to explain why they are holding a person
- Responsibilites
- things we should do; obligations that we fulfill voluntarily
- 8 areas that federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction
- constitution, federal laws, states, parties from different states, suits involving federal government, foreign governments and treaties, admiraly and Maritime laws, and U.S. Diplomats
- Minority Party is the:
- Republicans
- Filibuster
- talking a bill to death
- Expressed Powers
- powers to national government
- Authorization Bills
- create projects and establish how much money can be spent on them
- Speaker of the House is:
- Nancy Pelosi
- Merit system
- new workers from lists of people who have passed the tests or otherwise meet civil service standards
- 2 types of Bills
- Private and Public
- Joint Resolution
- resolutions propse consititutional amendments, designate money, and correct errors in bills already passed
- Popular Sovereignty
- power lies with the people
- Anti-Federalist
- opposers of the Constitution
- How old do you have to be to be in the House of Reps.?
- 25
- Powers of Congress
- collect taxes, borrow money, declare war, regulate foreign and interstate commerce,create/maintain army and navy,impeachment
- What Article created the Supreme Court?
- Article III
- Bill Creation: House(Private)
- dropped in hopper, given #, reviewed by committe,debates & votes and revision, compromise then vote;sign,veto,do nothing, or overide
- Federalists
- supporters of the Constitution
- Duties
- things we must do
- How old do you have to be to be in the Senate?
- 30
- Great Compromise
- a committe proposed that Congress have two houses.
- Bill Creation: Senate(Public)
- same as house; but bill is announced instead
- Riders
- completely unrelated amendments
- Pork-Barrel projects
- government projects/grants that benefit the home district/state
- 4 types of Congress Committes
- standing, select, joint, conferece
- Concurrent Powers
- powers that both state and national government share
- Special Interests Groups
- organizations made up of people with some common interest who try to influence government decisions
- Bureaucracies
- complex systems with many departments, many rules, and many people in the chanin of command
- How many people are in the House of Reps.?
- 435
- How many terms do the Reps. serve?
- 2 year terms
- President of the Senate is:
- Dick Cheney
- Limits on powers of Congress
- bills of attainer; ex post facto laws;writ of habeas corpus;can't violate bill of rights
- Embargo
- an agreement among a group of nations that prohibits all of them from trading with a target nation
- Manumission
- voluntary freeing of enslaved persons especially those who fought in revolutions