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| the key feature in the Great Compromise was its provision for |
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| a population based representation in the House and equal represenation for the states in the senate |
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| the number of seats granted to each state in the House of Representatives |
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| in a closely contested House vote on a bill, which states can always prevail in the vote because of their votin advatage |
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| states with the largest population |
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| as a result of the last two censuses (1990 and 2000), many states in the Northeast asn Midwest have lost seats in the House of representatives, but California has gained sears. THis process is known as |
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| A president can be impeached by the _________ and tried and removed form office by the _________ |
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| Before a treaty takes legal effect in the US it must |
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| The power to declare war resides with the |
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| an incumbent advantage permitting members of Congress to in touch with constituients by sending mailings at the taxpayers expense in known as |
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| in the congressional setting, casework refers to |
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| members helping constiuents with problems |
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| how incumbents may be considered vulnerable if they |
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| won their last election by a slim margin, have been involved in a scandal, have a political ideology inconsistent with that of their district |
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| the theory of decriptive representation would suggest that demale legislatures |
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| have more interest in women's, children's, and damily issues than male legislatures |
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| with their rulings in the 1980s, the Supreme Court encouraged the practice of |
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| the essence of the supreme court decisions in [i]Shaw vs. Reno[/i] and [i]Miller vs. Johnson[/i] is that |
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| states cannot use race as the predominant factor in drawing district lines |
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| if the president neither signs not vetoes a bill within 10 days while Congress is in session, the bill becomes |
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| a law (if Congress goes out of sesssion in those ten days in becomes a pocket veto) |
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| a major reason for the use of comittees in Congress is that they |
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| allow members of Congress to develop and use expertise in centain policy areas |
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| A ____________ is a temporary committee established to deal with issues that either overlap or fall outside the areas of expertise of standing cimmittees |
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| when members of congress vote in parrty meetings to select committ chairpersons, subject to leadership approval, the person selected is typically chosen primarily on the basis of |
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| length of service on committee and membership in the majority party |
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| the leader of the majority party in the House is the |
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| the mosr powerful leader in the House of REps. is the |
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| the most important job of partyleaders in congress is |
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| guide barganing and negotiation over the content of legislation |
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| according to the constitution, the minimum age required fot presidental candidates is the age of |
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| when designing the presidency, delagates to the constitutional convention were torn between |
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| according to the constitution which of th the following is not a constitutional requirement to becoem pres of the US |
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| propr political experience |
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| the pwoers of the president as outline in the constituition (adjectives) |
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| whiich of the following pwoers is not specifically granted to the president |
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| powers infereed from statements inthe constitution are called ____________ powers |
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| what is th trend concerning presidential power |
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| it has steadily increased |
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| the main danger to a president who relies heavily on the polls to make decisions is that he might |
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| fails to provide significant decision making input or support for the presidnetto expell a house member you need ________ vote |
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| memebers of congress are free from __________ while Congress is in session (except in felony cases) |
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