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POLS 207 EXAM 4 | 2025-2026 LATEST UPDATED | ACTUAL
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS | 100% RATED
CORRECT | 100% VERFIED SOLTIONS | ALREADY GRADED
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What does the legislative branch do? (4) - (ANSWER)- make statutory laws
- amend state constitutions
- constituent service
- bring government funding to district
What is geographic representation? - (ANSWER)represented by where you live
What are heterogeneous districts made up of? - (ANSWER)different types of
people with different interests, occupations, ethnicities
Are heterogeneous districts or homogeneous districts harder to represent? -
(ANSWER)heterogeneous districts
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What is job security dependent on? - (ANSWER)people who vote
What is entrepreneurial representation? - (ANSWER)not represented by where you
live, but rather by what you do
What is apportionment? - (ANSWER)dividing districts into groups with X amount
of people
What is a legislative apportionment rule? - (ANSWER)every district must have an
equal amount of people
How many house of rep. members does Texas have? - (ANSWER)150
When does legislative apportionment happen? - (ANSWER)end of every decade
(when we have a census)
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Who creates/draws up the districts? - (ANSWER)the political party that controls
the legislature
You cannot redistrict between censuses? (T/F) - (ANSWER)False.
You can redistrict between censuses as many times as wanted, but it doesnt not
happen often.
What is partisan gerrymandering? - (ANSWER)the practice of drawing legislative
and congressional district lines to maximize and perpetuate the power of a
incumbent political party.
In what 2 ways is partisan gerrymandering done? - (ANSWER)fracturing and
packing/concentrating
What is fracturing? - (ANSWER)fracturing the districts with minorities as the
majority so they aren't elected
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What is packing/concentrating? - (ANSWER)combining the districts as the
majority so they have 1 minority representative instead of 3 (for example)
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965? - (ANSWER)A law passed at the time of
the civil rights movement. It eliminated various devices, such as literacy tests, that
had traditionally been used to restrict voting by black people.
What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 make illegal? - (ANSWER)racial
gerrymandering
What is racial gerrymandering? - (ANSWER)the deliberate and arbitrary distortion
of district boundaries for racial purposes.
What are the districting requirements? - (ANSWER)- contiguity (must be
touching)
- population equality
POLS 207 EXAM 4 | 2025-2026 LATEST UPDATED | ACTUAL
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS | 100% RATED
CORRECT | 100% VERFIED SOLTIONS | ALREADY GRADED
A+
What does the legislative branch do? (4) - (ANSWER)- make statutory laws
- amend state constitutions
- constituent service
- bring government funding to district
What is geographic representation? - (ANSWER)represented by where you live
What are heterogeneous districts made up of? - (ANSWER)different types of
people with different interests, occupations, ethnicities
Are heterogeneous districts or homogeneous districts harder to represent? -
(ANSWER)heterogeneous districts
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What is job security dependent on? - (ANSWER)people who vote
What is entrepreneurial representation? - (ANSWER)not represented by where you
live, but rather by what you do
What is apportionment? - (ANSWER)dividing districts into groups with X amount
of people
What is a legislative apportionment rule? - (ANSWER)every district must have an
equal amount of people
How many house of rep. members does Texas have? - (ANSWER)150
When does legislative apportionment happen? - (ANSWER)end of every decade
(when we have a census)
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Who creates/draws up the districts? - (ANSWER)the political party that controls
the legislature
You cannot redistrict between censuses? (T/F) - (ANSWER)False.
You can redistrict between censuses as many times as wanted, but it doesnt not
happen often.
What is partisan gerrymandering? - (ANSWER)the practice of drawing legislative
and congressional district lines to maximize and perpetuate the power of a
incumbent political party.
In what 2 ways is partisan gerrymandering done? - (ANSWER)fracturing and
packing/concentrating
What is fracturing? - (ANSWER)fracturing the districts with minorities as the
majority so they aren't elected
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What is packing/concentrating? - (ANSWER)combining the districts as the
majority so they have 1 minority representative instead of 3 (for example)
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965? - (ANSWER)A law passed at the time of
the civil rights movement. It eliminated various devices, such as literacy tests, that
had traditionally been used to restrict voting by black people.
What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 make illegal? - (ANSWER)racial
gerrymandering
What is racial gerrymandering? - (ANSWER)the deliberate and arbitrary distortion
of district boundaries for racial purposes.
What are the districting requirements? - (ANSWER)- contiguity (must be
touching)
- population equality
