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AP GOVERNMENT, AMSCO CHAPTER 3, THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH Bicameral - correct answers Two house legislature; resulted from a dispute between small and large states, each wanting a different form of representation Seventeenth Amendment - correct answers Ratified in 1913; broadened democracy by giving the people of the state the right to elect their senators House of Representatives - correct answers the lower house of Congress, consisting of a different number of representatives from each state, depending on population; 435 members Reapportionment - correct answers to distribute differently Senate - correct answers Has 100 members; 2 members per state; 6 year terms Expressed Powers - correct answers powers directly stated in the constitution Implied Powers - correct answers Powers not specifically mentioned in the constitution Public Policy - correct answers the laws that govern the US Tax - correct answers a required payment to a local, state, or national government Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) - correct answers a dispute about whether state or national government has authority over the regulation of navigable US waterways United States v. Lopez (1995) - correct answers restricted the powers of the commerce clause