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History
12th Grade
01/18/2010

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Bicameral Sate Legislature
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Two Houses
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Richard Nixon
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This president appointed four justices to the Court
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Civil Liberties
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This comprises the largest block of the Court's cases
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American Bar Association (ABA)
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Major voice of the legal profession
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District Courts
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Workhorses of the federal judiciary
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Trial Court
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Original Jurisdiction
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Federal Courts
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Power Derived from the Constitution
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Litigants
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People engaged in lawsuits
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Office of Management and Budget
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Largest EOP (Executive Office of the President) Agency
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Cabinet
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President's Advisors
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Electoral College
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Winner - Take - All
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George Washington was elected first President by who?
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The Electoral College
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Compensation
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Presidents Salary
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The maximum time a president can be elected to serve.
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10 years. (2 1/2 Terms)
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The 3rd person in line for Presidency.
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Speaker of the House
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Casework
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Helping constituents with problems
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Pork-Barrel Legislation
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Passing laws to appropriate money for local federal projects
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Farm Issues
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Party voting is strong on these
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Democrats
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Tend to favor social-welfare programs
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Representatives of interest groups
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Lobbyists
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Entitlements
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Social programs that continue from one year to the next.
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Examples of Entitlements
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Social Security
Food Stamps
Medicare
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Public Bills
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Bills dealing with general matters
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joint Resolutions
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This mechanism is used to propose constitutional amendments
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Concurrent Resolution
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This item requires the action of both houses, but no law is needed
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Pocket Veto
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This action allows the president to kill a bill during the last 10 days Congress is in session by refusing to act on it.
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Joint Committees
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Act as a study group
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Unanimous Consent
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The Senate conducts most of its business through...
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Min. & Maj. Whip
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Assists the Floor Leader
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Extradite
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Return criminals
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Public Acts
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Civil Laws passed by state legislatures
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Privileges and Immunities
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Nondiscrimination against other states' citizens
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Interstate Compacts
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Agreements between States
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Supreme Court
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Only court in which one state may sue another
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Delegated Powers
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Include expressed, implied, and inherent
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Implied powers
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Based on necessary and proper clause
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Both state and national government
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Concurrent Powers
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Government control of immigration is an example of...
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Inherent Powers
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Jurisdiction of the federal courts does NOT include...
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Divorce
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Decisions of the Supreme Court can only be overturned by the Court or by...
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Constitutional Amendment
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19th Amendment
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Women's Suffrage
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Veto Override
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Two-thirds vote of each house
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Preamble
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In this part of the Constitution, the founders listed six goals for American government
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Amendments
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This section of the Constitution is responsive to the needs of a changing nation
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Free Enterprise System
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Capitalism
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A hands-off policy
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Laizzes-faire
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Proletariat
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Workers
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Command Economy
Marx believed under this system one class would evolve
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Communism
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Free Market
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Adam Smith provided a philosophy for this type of economic system
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Socialism
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In this type of economy, the government owns the basic means of production. Critics say it hinders economic growth.
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Mixed-Market Economy
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The US economic system
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Initiative
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This is a method by which citizens propose and amendment or law
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*17A Electoral Vote
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This is equal to the number of representatives and senators from the states, plus three votes from Washington D.C.
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*17A Soft Money
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These contributions raised questions about how the money was raised
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*17A Grandfather Clause
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Kept African Americans from Voting
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*17A Voting Rights Act
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Outlawed literacy tests
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*17A Campaign Manager
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Plans the political campaign
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*17A Federal Election Commission (FEC)
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Records political contributions
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*17A White Male Suffrage
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Founder's belief
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*17B Party Loyalists vote a...
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straight-party ticket
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*17B This helped many voters to be better informed
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television
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*17B Voting Rights Act of 1965
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-Abolished literacy tests
-required that ballots be printed in Spanish for Spanish speaking communities
-Provided for the appointment of poll watchers
-Empowered the federal government to register voters under certain circumstances
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*17B Liberal
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Left of Center
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*17B Conservative
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Right of Center
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Along with the enjoyment of fundamental rights comes a responsibility to ensure...
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their strength and endurance
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This case on the establishment clause still stands as the benchmark for state aid to parochial schools.
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Everson v. Board of Education
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If you advocate revolution, you will be punished for...
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sedition
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This is false speech
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Defamatory Speech
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Values and beliefs of society
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Influences on the Court
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Limits on the Court's power
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Lack of enforcement power
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Most court cases
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Regarding civil liberties
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14th Amendment guarantees...
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A court-appointed lawyer
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Miranda v. Arizona
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Changed law enforcement across the country
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*11B Assist justices
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Law Clerks
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*11B First Woman Justice
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Sandra Day O'Connor
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*11B Authority to hear certain cases
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Jurisdiction of the Courts
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*11B Tied states rights to slavery issues
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Dred Scott v. Sandford
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*11B The U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has jurisdiction over the...
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U.S. Court of International Trade
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*11B "Trial judges, because of the multitude of cases they hear which remain unheard or unchanged by appellate courts, as well as because of their fact- and issue-shaping powers, appear to play an independent and formidable part in the policy impact of the federal court system upon the larger political system." -Kenneth M. Dolbeare, 1969
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Dolbeare expressed that trial judges are key players in the political system.
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*11B "legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts or to abolish distinctions."
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The Hate Crime Legislation defies this notion.
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*11A Upheld monopoly of business trusts
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United States v. E.C. Knight & Co.
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*11A Hands down the verdict
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Petit Jury
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*11A Hands down the indictment
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Grand jury
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*11A Established judicial review
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Marbury v. Madison
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*11A If you are registered to vote or have a driver's license, you may be called...
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For jury duty
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*11A This justice headed a special commission that investigated the assassination of President john F. Kennedy
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Chief Justice Earl Warren
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*11A A state may not take a person's life, liberty, or property without...
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Due Process
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Rules that have the forces of law are called...
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Executive orders
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This has helped increase the power of the President
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Forum
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The Constitution gave Congress this power over the presidents veto.
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Line-item Veto
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Major newspapers and magazines provide the president this medium for discussion
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Executive agreement
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Mandate
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Expressed will of the people
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Grants a postponement of legal punishment
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Reprieve
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Release from legal punishment
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Pardon
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Commander of the national armed forces
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President
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This deals with presidential succession
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25th Amendment
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This person presides over the Senate
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Vice President
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Line-Item Veto
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Would have expanded presidential power
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Taxes
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Provide government with money
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Agreements between lawmakers
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Logrolling
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Committee ignores a bill
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Pigeonholing
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Almost all the important work on tax laws occurs in the
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House Ways and Means Committee
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These congressional staffers help constituents with problems
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Case workers
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Matters requiring the action of both the House and Senate, but on which a law is not needed are called...
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Concurrent Resolutions
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This group tends to vote in favor of business
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Republicans
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Legislative assistant
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Attends committee meetings
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Senators term
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6 years
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Personal staff member with office management duties
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Administrative assistant
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The way every law starts
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As a bill
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The president of the senate is...
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the Vice President
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The presiding officer of the House of Representative is the...
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Speaker
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People in districts represented in Congress are called
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Constituents
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A degree in law
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NOT a qualification for election to the House
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Redistricting
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The process of setting up new congressional districts after reapportionment
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The power to write the rules in Congress in controlled by...
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Majority Party
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NOT an example of a congressional enumerated power
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To issue search warrants
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Chief Justice Earl Warren demonstrated...
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Judicial Activism
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The Constitution is based on the concept of
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Popular Sovreignty
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This elevated the Supreme Court to a higher status, balancing the powers of the other branches
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Judicial Review
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This section of the Constitution states why it is was written
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Preamble
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Article 1 of the Constitution
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Described the Legislative Branch & created a voice for the House of Representatives
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Slander
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False malicious speech
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The Equal Rights Amendment caused questions because
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states revoked their ratification
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Jurisdiction of federal courts
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Bankruptcy
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"Necessary and Proper" Laws
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Elastic Clause
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Article 2 of the Constitution
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Describes the Executive Branch
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First Amendment
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Protects free speech
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Article 3 of the Constitution
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Describes the Judicial Branch
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