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| What is a legislature consisting of 2 parts or houses? |
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| A population count taken by the Census Bureau |
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| What is a person from a legislator's distruct called? |
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| What is an oddly shaped district designed to increase the voting strength of a articular group |
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| What is a majority party? |
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| House of representatives and the Senate, the political party to which MORE that half the members belong |
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| What is the House of Representaives and the Senate, the politicalparty to which FEWER than half belong to the political party? |
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| What is a standing committee? |
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| permanent committees that continue their work from session to sesssion in congress |
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| What are years of service, which is used as a consideration for assigning committee members called?senority |
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| What are expressed powers? |
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| powers congress has that are stated specifically in the constitution |
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| What are powers Congress has that ae not stated specifically in the Constitution? |
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| What is an elastic clause? |
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| a clause in Articles 1 Section 8 of the constitution that gives congress the right to make all laws "neccessary and proper" to carry out it's expressed powers |
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| to accuse government officials of misconduct in office |
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| What is a court order that requires police to bring a prisoner to court to explain why they are holding the person |
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| What is a law that punishes a person accused of a crime without a trial or a fair hearing in court? |
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| What is a law that would allow a person to be punished for an action that was not against the law when it was commited? |
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