WGU C963 AMERICAN POLITICS
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QUESTIONS
◉advice and consent. Answer: Terms in the Constitution describing
the U.S. Senate's power to review and approve treaties and
presidential appointments.
◉Impeachment. Answer: A formal document charging a public
official with misconduct in office
◉Supermajority. Answer: a majority greater than a simple majority
of one over half, e.g., 3/5, 2/3.
◉Filibuster. Answer: A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a
senator refuses to relinquish the floor and thereby delays
proceedings and prevents a vote on a controversial issue.
◉majority party. Answer: the party that holds the majority of
legislative seats in either the House or the Senate
,◉minority party. Answer: In both the House of Representatives and
the Senate, the political party to which fewer than half the members
belong
◉Speaker of the House. Answer: An office mandated by the
Constitution. The Speaker is chosen in practice by the majority party,
has both formal and informal powers, and is second in line to
succeed to the presidency should that office become vacant.
◉majority leader. Answer: the legislative leader elected by party
members holding the majority of seats in the House or Senate
◉minority leader. Answer: The principal leader of the minority
party in the House of Representatives or in the Senate.
◉Majority Whip. Answer: a go-between with the majority
leadership and party members in the house of representatives
◉Minority Whip. Answer: a go-between with the minority
leadership whose job mirrors that of the majority whip but without
the power that comes from holding a majority in the House of
Representatives
◉President Pro Tempore. Answer: Officer of the Senate selected by
the majority party to act as chair in the absence of the vice president
,◉standing committee. Answer: A permanent committee established
in a legislature, usually focusing on a policy area
◉select committees aka special committees. Answer: Congressional
committees appointed for a specific purpose, such as the Watergate
investigation.
◉Conference committees are. Answer: temporary, involve members
from both houses of Congress, and are charged with reaching a
compromise on legislation once it has been passed by both the
House and the Senate.
◉Rules Committee. Answer: A standing committee of the House of
Representatives that provides special rules under which specific
bills can be debated, amended, and considered by the house.
◉1957 Civil Rights Bill. Answer: Bill passed by LBJ that helped begin
first steps towards Civil Rights movement.
◉Gerrymandering. Answer: Process of redrawing legislative
boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.
◉Redistricting. Answer: The redrawing of congressional and other
legislative district lines following the census, to accommodate
, population shifts and keep districts as equal as possible in
population.
◉Reapportionment. Answer: the process of reassigning
representation based on population, after every census
◉Baker v. Carr (1962). Answer: "One man, one vote." Ordered state
legislative districts to be as near equal as possible in population;
Warren Court's judicial activism.
◉Miller v. Johnson (1995). Answer: States cannot draw
congressional districts in which race is the primary consideration.
◉Shaw v. Reno (1993). Answer: NO racial gerrymandering; race
cannot be the sole or predominant factor in redrawing legislative
boundaries; majority-minority districts.
◉Cooper v. Harris (2017). Answer: when the Supreme Court
rejected electoral districts created in North Carolina because it
believed that the state legislature had relied too heavily on race
when creating their electoral districts
◉Twelfth Amendment (1804). Answer: Required a separate vote
tally in the Electoral College for president and vice president. This
change made running on a party ticket much easier.
CERTIFICATION SCRIPT COMPLETE
QUESTIONS
◉advice and consent. Answer: Terms in the Constitution describing
the U.S. Senate's power to review and approve treaties and
presidential appointments.
◉Impeachment. Answer: A formal document charging a public
official with misconduct in office
◉Supermajority. Answer: a majority greater than a simple majority
of one over half, e.g., 3/5, 2/3.
◉Filibuster. Answer: A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a
senator refuses to relinquish the floor and thereby delays
proceedings and prevents a vote on a controversial issue.
◉majority party. Answer: the party that holds the majority of
legislative seats in either the House or the Senate
,◉minority party. Answer: In both the House of Representatives and
the Senate, the political party to which fewer than half the members
belong
◉Speaker of the House. Answer: An office mandated by the
Constitution. The Speaker is chosen in practice by the majority party,
has both formal and informal powers, and is second in line to
succeed to the presidency should that office become vacant.
◉majority leader. Answer: the legislative leader elected by party
members holding the majority of seats in the House or Senate
◉minority leader. Answer: The principal leader of the minority
party in the House of Representatives or in the Senate.
◉Majority Whip. Answer: a go-between with the majority
leadership and party members in the house of representatives
◉Minority Whip. Answer: a go-between with the minority
leadership whose job mirrors that of the majority whip but without
the power that comes from holding a majority in the House of
Representatives
◉President Pro Tempore. Answer: Officer of the Senate selected by
the majority party to act as chair in the absence of the vice president
,◉standing committee. Answer: A permanent committee established
in a legislature, usually focusing on a policy area
◉select committees aka special committees. Answer: Congressional
committees appointed for a specific purpose, such as the Watergate
investigation.
◉Conference committees are. Answer: temporary, involve members
from both houses of Congress, and are charged with reaching a
compromise on legislation once it has been passed by both the
House and the Senate.
◉Rules Committee. Answer: A standing committee of the House of
Representatives that provides special rules under which specific
bills can be debated, amended, and considered by the house.
◉1957 Civil Rights Bill. Answer: Bill passed by LBJ that helped begin
first steps towards Civil Rights movement.
◉Gerrymandering. Answer: Process of redrawing legislative
boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.
◉Redistricting. Answer: The redrawing of congressional and other
legislative district lines following the census, to accommodate
, population shifts and keep districts as equal as possible in
population.
◉Reapportionment. Answer: the process of reassigning
representation based on population, after every census
◉Baker v. Carr (1962). Answer: "One man, one vote." Ordered state
legislative districts to be as near equal as possible in population;
Warren Court's judicial activism.
◉Miller v. Johnson (1995). Answer: States cannot draw
congressional districts in which race is the primary consideration.
◉Shaw v. Reno (1993). Answer: NO racial gerrymandering; race
cannot be the sole or predominant factor in redrawing legislative
boundaries; majority-minority districts.
◉Cooper v. Harris (2017). Answer: when the Supreme Court
rejected electoral districts created in North Carolina because it
believed that the state legislature had relied too heavily on race
when creating their electoral districts
◉Twelfth Amendment (1804). Answer: Required a separate vote
tally in the Electoral College for president and vice president. This
change made running on a party ticket much easier.
