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- 1. Multiple Choice
Establishing the boundaries of United States congressional districts to give one party an advantage over another party is referred to as
raiding
apportionment
reapportionment
gerrymandering
filibustering
- 2. Multiple ChoiceCongress has the power to taxTrueFalse
- 3. Multiple ChoiceCongress has the power create post officesTrueFalse
- 4. Multiple ChoiceCongress has the power to appoint Supreme Court JudgesTrueFalse
- 5. Multiple Choice
What is a President Cabinet?When federal criminal offenses are forgivenThe postponement of punishment like executionsThe process of how the President is selectedPeople in charge of the executive branch departments - 6. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the Electoral College?When federal criminal offenses are forgivenThe postponement of punishment like executionsThe process of how the President is selectedPeople in charge of the executive branch departments
- 7. Multiple ChoiceWith the judicial powers vested in the Presidency, he can legally forgive a single person's crime with a...pardonamnestyreprievecommutation
- 8. Multiple ChoiceThe president's branch is the...legislativeexecutivejudicial
- 9. Multiple ChoiceThis article of the Constitution describes the job of the President.1234
- 10. Multiple ChoiceWhen he suggests new laws to the Congress, the president is serving as the Chief...LegislatorCitizenCongressmanExecutive
- 11. Multiple ChoiceInterprets the Constitution;
Reviews lower court decisionsLegislativeExecutiveJudicial - 12. Multiple ChoiceNegotiate treaties;
Propose laws;
Command the militaryLegislativeExecutiveJudicial - 13. Multiple ChoiceWrite laws;
Grant money;
Declare warLegislativeExecutiveJudicial - 14. Multiple Choice____________ is the President of the SenateThe Vice PresidentThe SpeakerThe President Pro TemporeThe Chief Justice
- 15. Multiple ChoiceA presidential term is:2 years4 years6 years8 years
- 16. Multiple ChoiceOnly President to serve more than two termsLBJJFKFDRFRD
- 17. Multiple ChoiceAll of the following are presidential powers EXCEPT the authority tonegotiate treatiesveto legislation.declare warnominate ambassadors.
- 18. Multiple ChoiceAll of the following are nonlegislative powers of Congress EXCEPTselecting the President if no candidate receives a majority in the electoral college.nominating Cabinet positions and Supreme Court justices.approving executive branch appointments.proposing amendments to the Constitution.
- 19. Multiple ChoiceThe process by which a citizen of one country becomes a citizen of another is known asacquistioncopyright laweminent domainnaturalization
- 20. Multiple ChoiceA bill must go through both the House of Representatives and the Senate before it can go to the President and become a law.TrueFalse
- 21. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the primary job of Congress?make lawsenforce lawsmake taxesinterpret laws
- 22. Multiple ChoiceWhich branch of the government did Article I create?Executive BranchLegislative BranchJudicial BranchOlive Branch
- 23. Multiple ChoiceA bill can still become law after a presidential veto bya Supreme Court decisiona simple majority vote in both houses of Congressa 2/3 majority vote in both houses of Congress3/4 of state legislatures voting for the bill
- 24. Multiple ChoiceAfter a bill is introduced where is it sent?SuncommitteeCommitteeThe Rules CommitteeThe Senate
- 25. Multiple ChoiceWhen a senator tries to talk a bill to death it is calledfilibusterquorumcloture ruleimpeachment
- 26. Multiple ChoiceWhich statement about the Senate is true?It has two members from each state.Its members are chosen by the state legislaturesEach member represents one congressional districtThe number of Senators is apportioned according to state population
- 27. Multiple ChoiceA bill isa proposed lawa payment Congress makesused to collect taxesan order by Congress to carry out its laws
- 28. Multiple ChoiceSenators servetwo yearsfour yearssix yearslife terms
- 29. Multiple ChoiceThe total members of Congress is435535dependent upon populationreapportioned every census
- 30. Multiple ChoiceWhat is redistricting?the process of establishing the number of representatives in the U.S. Senatethe process of drawing United States and state electoral district boundariesthe idea that all states should have an equal number of people in Congressthe use of the Census to determine who should run for office
- 31. Multiple Choice
An act of Congress that actually funds programs within limits established by authorization bills. Appropriations usually cover one year.
Pork-barrel Legislation
Earmarks
Log-rolling
Appropriations Bill
- 32. Multiple Choice
The constitutional power of Congress to raise and spend money. Congress can use this as a negative or checking power over the other branches by freezing or cutting their funding.
Power of the Purse
Discretionary Spending
Mandatory Spending
Entitlements
- 33. Multiple Choice
Established the principle of "one person, one vote", ordered state legislative districts to be as near equal as possible in population. The Court asserted that the federal courts had the right to tell states to reapportion their districts for more equal representation.
Baker v. Carr (1962)
Shaw v. Reno (1993)
Shelby v. Holder (2013)
- 34. Multiple Choice
No racial gerrymandering; race cannot be the sole or predominant factor in redrawing legislative boundaries; majority-minority districts.
Baker v. Carr (1962)
Shaw v. Reno (1993)
Shelby v. Holder (2013)
- 35. Multiple ChoiceWho confirms nominees to the Supreme Court?The US HouseCurrent Supreme Court JusticesThe President's CabinetThe US Senate
- 36. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following initiate an impeachment trial?Supreme CourtHouse of RepresentativesSenateFederal Reserve
- 37. Multiple ChoiceIn 1970 the Supreme Court struck down a law requiring states lower the voting age to 18. What was one way the Congress could respond to check the Supreme Court?Remove justices from the benchReduce the justices' pay to show displeasurePropose a constitutional amendmentOverride the justices' unconstitutional act
- 38. Multiple Choice
For the Supreme Court to agree to hear a case, the Court must have jurisdiction and at least ________ justices must agree to hear the case.
5
4
9
7
- 39. Multiple Choice
The Supreme Court has the power of
Judicial inquiry
Judicial Review
Approving court appointed attorneys
appointing cabinet members
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