Politics of the United States Questions

Permanat congressional committees with respnsibility for a particular area of public plicy are called _______________ committees.

Congressional Committees created for a specific time period and purpose called _______________ commitees.

Who can act the President Officer of the United States Senate?

Since the limit of 435 voting members was established early last century, the number of seats has not changed. Why has it not increased?

What is the name of the idea, traceable to the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, that a god political system should mix democartic and aristocratic elements to gain the advantages, and avoid the disadvantages, of either a pure democracy or pure aristocracy.

By the Samuels and Snyder measure of malapportionment, the U.S. House of Representatives is ___________ malapportioned lower legislative chambers in the world.

_____________ committees are congressional committees compossed of members of both houses and that perform advisory functions.

The U.S House and Senate are separate and coequal chambers, each with its own leadership and rules. Compared with other democracies that have bicameral legislatures, how can this type of legislative structure be described?

Which chamber of the United States Congress has more authority?

To promote a mixed regime, the Founders designed the House of Representatives to be more _________ than the Senate, while the Senate was intended to be more ___________ than the House of Representatives.

Political Scientists say a legislative chamber is "__________________" to the extent that there are significant discrepencies in voting power of citizens across the states or districts represented within that chamber.

By the Samuels and Synder measure of malapportionate, the U.S Senate is _________________ malapportined upper chambers in the world.

The president has 10 days not including Sundays which to consider legislationPresented for approval the president has several options

A occurs when the Congress adjourns before the 10 days the president has to consider legislation

The Supreme Court has __ particular exercises of executive power that it found __ under the constitution

The stewardship theory states that the president is authorized to do __ short of what is expressly prohibited by the constitution or other laws

The Congressional budget and empowerment control act of 1974 recognizes a __ presidential power to impound funds and requires a president to inform Congress of reasons for an intended empowerment provides for a legislative __ veto to prevent the president from proceeding

A __ Is an agreement between two or more nations in which they Promise to behave in specified ways

Article one provides Congress with the authority to __article 2 recognizes the president as__

And executive agreement enables the __ to enter into an agreement with another country without the need for __ approval as is constitutionally required in the case of treaties