Texas Government Questions with CORRECT Answers (Verified Update)
Q1: How to get rid of philibuster FEDERAL
Answer: Senate 22/clouse Majority needs to get 60 signitures to vote again with everyone voting or
else it is killed
Q2: When the US supreme court has different reasons why that person is guilty
Answer: Concurred opinion
Q3: Majority opinion of the US Supreme Court
Answer: a judicial opinion agreed to by more than half of the members of a court
Q4: minority opinion of the US supreme court
Answer: a judicial opinion agreed to by less than half of the members of a court
Q5: How to get rid of a philibuster STATE
Answer: He/She has to go to the stand and talk until congress is out of session, they are not allowed
to take any kind of break
Q6: Why do we have government
Answer: to provide order and to promote the general welfare
Q7: How many amendments does the US Constitution have?
Answer: 27
Q8: Does Texas constitution apply to other states?
Answer: NO
Q9: How many articles are in texas constituion
Answer: 17
Q10: How many amendments are in Texas constitution
Answer: 517
Q11: How to override a veto Federal
Answer: 2/3 vote in both houses
, Q12: Texas Constitution Artical 4 section 16
Answer: Whenever the governer is out of the state the lieutenate government automatically
becomes the governer
Q13: Who is in charge of majority and minority partys
Answer: Majority and Minoritys leader
Q14: Who is the leader of the House of Representatives?
Answer: Speaker of the House (the most powerful in the house decides the agenda for the house of
repersenatives)
Q15: Who is in charge of the Senate?
Answer: Vice President
Q16: How many members does texas have in the house of repersenatives
Answer: 150 members
Q17: Simple majority for house of repersenatives
Answer: 218/435
Q18: How does a bill become a law?
Answer: If a bill has passed in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and has
been approved by the President, or if a presidential veto has been overridden, the bill
becomes a law and is enforced by the government.
Q19: Does the senate have a calender commiette
Answer: NO they do not have to vote on the bill
Q20: Bi annual legislaters STATE
Answer: Only in office for 440 days in texas (Part Time)
Q21: Bill
Answer: a proposed law presented to a legislative body for consideration
Q22: Bill of rights
Answer: The first ten amendments to the Constitution
Q1: How to get rid of philibuster FEDERAL
Answer: Senate 22/clouse Majority needs to get 60 signitures to vote again with everyone voting or
else it is killed
Q2: When the US supreme court has different reasons why that person is guilty
Answer: Concurred opinion
Q3: Majority opinion of the US Supreme Court
Answer: a judicial opinion agreed to by more than half of the members of a court
Q4: minority opinion of the US supreme court
Answer: a judicial opinion agreed to by less than half of the members of a court
Q5: How to get rid of a philibuster STATE
Answer: He/She has to go to the stand and talk until congress is out of session, they are not allowed
to take any kind of break
Q6: Why do we have government
Answer: to provide order and to promote the general welfare
Q7: How many amendments does the US Constitution have?
Answer: 27
Q8: Does Texas constitution apply to other states?
Answer: NO
Q9: How many articles are in texas constituion
Answer: 17
Q10: How many amendments are in Texas constitution
Answer: 517
Q11: How to override a veto Federal
Answer: 2/3 vote in both houses
, Q12: Texas Constitution Artical 4 section 16
Answer: Whenever the governer is out of the state the lieutenate government automatically
becomes the governer
Q13: Who is in charge of majority and minority partys
Answer: Majority and Minoritys leader
Q14: Who is the leader of the House of Representatives?
Answer: Speaker of the House (the most powerful in the house decides the agenda for the house of
repersenatives)
Q15: Who is in charge of the Senate?
Answer: Vice President
Q16: How many members does texas have in the house of repersenatives
Answer: 150 members
Q17: Simple majority for house of repersenatives
Answer: 218/435
Q18: How does a bill become a law?
Answer: If a bill has passed in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and has
been approved by the President, or if a presidential veto has been overridden, the bill
becomes a law and is enforced by the government.
Q19: Does the senate have a calender commiette
Answer: NO they do not have to vote on the bill
Q20: Bi annual legislaters STATE
Answer: Only in office for 440 days in texas (Part Time)
Q21: Bill
Answer: a proposed law presented to a legislative body for consideration
Q22: Bill of rights
Answer: The first ten amendments to the Constitution
