Law and Politics

A major assumption that the founders had concerning the Electoral College was that electors would ______.

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The founders intended for voters to directly elect their representatives in both the House and Senate.

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Senate terms are staggered so that they do not all come up for reelection in the same year.

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Which of the following is the extremely powerful congressional committee that determines when debate ...

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When different versions of the same bill pass in the House and the Senate, ______.

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When Congress sends a bill to the president within 10 days of the end of its session and the ...

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The Supreme Court has ruled that House districts ______.

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The Senate shares with the president the power to ______.

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The reallocation of congressional seats among the states every 10 years, following the census, is ...

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The party that has the most seats in a house of Congress is known as the ______.

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The job of confirming presidential appointments belongs to the ______.

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Policy entrepreneurship is defined as the ______.

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Partisan gerrymandering is the process in a particular state legislature whereby the majority party ______.

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It has been increasingly difficult for the parties to work together in Congress in recent years ...

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In recent years, the filibuster has ______.

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Descriptive representation is ______.

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Congress finds it difficult to make policy that solves national problems because ______.

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According to the textbook, ______ gerrymandering is highly controversial.

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A temporary committee established for the purpose of dealing with a specific issue or problem is ...

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______ are important in Congress because they organize the chambers.

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The Defense of Marriage Act requires states to recognize gay marriages performed in other states.

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De facto discrimination is generally the result of tradition and habit.

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Abolitionist groups were typically composed of free Black people and southern white people.

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Which Supreme Court case aided in the battle to overturn the Courts decision on Plessy v. Ferguson?

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Which president issued an executive order that prohibited discrimination in firms that conduct ...

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