unit two test

checks balances

President checks, Congress by issuing a veto send a check for president through confirming presidential appointments

Chief diplomat

Directs for policy meets with leaders and negotiate treaties

Commander in chief

Highest ranking authority over military

How many members are in the House of Representatives?

435

Who is the most powerful leader in the House of Representatives?

Speaker of the house

Why was the House of Representatives designed the way it was?

To represent population and to make this chamber directly responsive to the people

How many members are in the Senate?

102 per state six year terms

Why was the sun created this way?

So that each state was represented equally allowing stability and force

What was the great compromise

The buy camera structure was created during the constitutional convention to balance the demands of larger states and smaller states

Express powers

Powers written Word for Word in the constitution

Implied power

Power set are not expressly, stated from the necessary and proper clause, allowing Congress to pass laws that help carry out the express powers

How does a bill become a

Isabel is proposed and submitted to either chamber of Congress then sent to a committee if the bill passes both houses then the president needs to sign it but if the president violet the Congress can override, said Vito with a two out of three majority vote in both chambers

Filibuster

Tactic used by the sun to delay or prevent a vote on a bill

Impeachment

Formal occasion of misconduct against a public official

Congressional reapportionment

changing the seats of the House of Representatives every 10 years based on population changes from the census

Redistrict

When district lines for voting change

Gerrymander

Manipulating district boundaries in favor of a political

Federal bureaucracy

An administration of departments of non-elected officials who implement public policy Who works with the president‘s cabinet and then the cabinet advises the president

Government corporations

Agencies that operate like commercial businesses like the USPS

Regularly commission

Agencies that regulate a specific business and economic practices

What is a common criticism of the bureaucracy?

It is on accountable to the public

The electoral college

System that determines who will win in the US president

What was the purpose of the electoral college?

Framer who enlightened people who chose the president to serve as a safeguard was a compromise between just letting Congress choose the president and having a direct popular vote

It’s a race to _____

270 electoral votes

Strength of the the electoral college college

Protects voices of smaller population states requires candidates to build broad national appeal promotes political stability by reinforcing a two party system

Weaknesses of the electoral college

You can win the popular vote and lose the electoral vote. Canada‘s focus mostly on swing states the winner takes it all system discourage his three party candidates.

Interest groups

Organizations that advocate for citizens who share similar ideas or goals