GOV EXAM 1
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- senatorial courtesy
- unwritten custom by which the supreme court has applied most of provisions of the bill of rights to the states under the 14th amendment.
- seniority system
- system, until modified and reformed in the 1970s, that automatically resulted in the selection as a committee chair of those members of the majority party in congress who had the longest continuous service on a committee.
- franking privilege
- system entitling members of congress to send mail to constituents without charge by putting their frank, mark, on the envelope. the law forbids using this privilege for solicitation of money or votes, or for mass mailings 60 days before an election.
- trustee
- concept of the Britishe Statesmen Edmund Burke that legislators should act according to their own consciences.
- instructed delegate
- legislature who automatically mirrors the will of the majority of his or her constituents
- unanimous consent
- a time saving procedure under which bills maybe called up for consideration in the senate, unless one or more members object
- filibuster
- process by which a single senator, or a group of senators, can sometimes talk a bill to death and prevent it from coming to a vote
- cloture
- senate procedure to cutt off a filibuster by a vote of 3/5
- special committees
- committees created by congress to conduct special investigations
- select committees
- committees created by congress to conduct special investigations, although normally temporary, some select committees become permanent.
- joint committee
- committees of congress composed of both representatives and senators
- standing committee
- permanent committees of a legislature that considers bills and conduct hearings and investigations
- conference committee
- committee composed of house and senate members that try to reconcile disagreements between the two branches of congress over differing versions of a bill
- legislative veto
- provision of law in which congress asserts the power to nullify actions of the executive branch found unconstitutional in 1983
- reapportionment
- to reallocate legislative seats to areas with heavy population growth and taking seats away without growth
- judiciary
- collective term referring to the system of courts and its judge and other personnel
- electoral
- settles election disputes
- veto
- disapproval of a bill by the president
- pocket veto
- power of the president to kill a bill by taking no action. only exercised when congress adjourns for good at the end of a second session, not during a recess
- line item veto
- prower of the president struck down by the supreme court in 1998, to veto parts of appropriation bills. most state governors have this power
- impeachment
- formal prceedings against the president or other federal officials who may be removed from office due to \"treason, bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors\"
- executive privilege
- president\'s right to withhold information from congress and judiciary
- war powers act
- limit president\'s use of combat forces abroad