Politics of the United States Questions

An informal hearing before a judge to determine if sufficient evidence exists to have a suspect bound over for trial

Before you are interrogated by the police, they have to remind you of your rights

The power to declare laws and actions invalid if they violate the constitution

A person not satisfied with the procedure of the trial or the way the law was applied may try to appeal their case to a higher court

The paragraphs in a section of each article of the Constitution are called

The numbered sections in each article of the Constitution are called

What is the term length in the senate?

How many senators are there per state?

Candidates Jones and Smith are competitors in the 2020 election. They have developed very different playbooks for targeting voters. Candidate Jones intends to focus primarily on the least-likely voter groups (i.e., those that were a low proportion of the electorate given their proportion of the population). Candidate Smith has adopted a much more conventional strategy, targeting those groups that had high turnout in the previous election. Based on their campaign playbooks, identify the groups that each candidate would most likely target their campaign messages.

What is the minimum years as a citizen requirement in the senate?

What is the minimum age to be a representative in the HOR?

Congress passes a new tax bill with only five days left in the session. The president has no intention of signing it and lets it quietly die on his desk, without Congress having a chance to override the president's decisions. This is an example of a(n)

in the House, Democrats have a caucus, and Republicans have a conference. These two names both refer to which of the following?

A _____ is a proposed law that has been sponsored by a member of Congress and submitted to the clerk of the House or Senate. After deliberation, it can be sent to _____ committee markup to incorporate changes discussed during hearing or deliberation. Or it can be simply allowed to die, as ____ proposed laws do.

____ votes provide a record of individual members' support or opposition to a proposal. If at least 50 percent of one party takes a position and at least 50 percent of the other party takes the opposite position, then it is considered a ______ vote.

The following figure presents demographic data on Congress over time. Identify which demographic group is presented in each of the four trend lines in the figure by dragging each group name to its correct line in the figure.

Most programs are subject to oversight at least once very _____ during hearings on _____.

Congressional __________ committees were tasked with investigating Watergate, the Iran-Contra affair, and the Benghazi scandal.

Both gerrymandering and redistricting involved the redrawing of election districts. ________ is the broader term, and may or may not happen with any one group's advantage in mind. _____ definitely involves redrawing district lines to give unfair advantage to one group or another.

At the beginning of each new session of Congress, the House republican ______ gathers to elect their leaders, and the House Democratic _________ elects officers and plans its strategy. The ___________, which serves as the chief presiding office, is then elected by the full membership of the House with voting typically going along party lines.