POLS 207 Exam 4 2025/2026 Exam
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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
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)
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
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
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, 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
- voting rights act (no racial gerrymandering)
- roundish/squarish as possible
Why is incumbent defeat rare? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔money contributions
usually go to incumbents, therefore more vote for them because they have
more money to fund a better campaign
Most incumbents run unopposed? (T/F) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔True
In Texas, within how many days can you introduce a bill? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔First 60 days
When does a biannual session happen? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔once every 2
years (every odd year because elections are on even years)
How can you write/propose/sponsor a bill? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔get elected to
become a member of legislature
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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
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)
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
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
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, 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
- voting rights act (no racial gerrymandering)
- roundish/squarish as possible
Why is incumbent defeat rare? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔money contributions
usually go to incumbents, therefore more vote for them because they have
more money to fund a better campaign
Most incumbents run unopposed? (T/F) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔True
In Texas, within how many days can you introduce a bill? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔First 60 days
When does a biannual session happen? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔once every 2
years (every odd year because elections are on even years)
How can you write/propose/sponsor a bill? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔get elected to
become a member of legislature
