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| The regular evaluation of a legislature's work by the citizenry. |
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| An evolution of any sort, whether planned or unplanned. |
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| An authority currently wielded by forty-three governors that allows a chief executive to veto parts of bills. Congress granted the president a form of line-item veto, enhanced recission authority, but the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional in 1998. |
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| A strategic tenet holding that proposed reforms that are too large or too small seldom get enacted. |
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| An alternative form of legislative representation in which citizens vote on the basis of party in national elections, and one or more parties form a majority in the national Legislature. The legislative majority then selects the chief executive and cabinet for the executive branch, which serves at the sufferance of the parliamentary majority. |
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| Planned change with a specific goal in mind. |
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| As applied to a legislature, it concerns the ability of a legislature to solve problems with speed and effectiveness. |
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| The capacity of a legislature to listen to and take into account the ideas and sentiments of those who will be affected by its actions. |
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| speech or debate privilege |
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| under Article I, Section 6, of the U.S. Constitution: Members "shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place." |
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