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Voting and Legislative Branch Study Guide
1.
What are constituents?
2.
What factors does a member of Congress need to consider when voting on bill?
3.
Who/what determines the number of representatives each state gets?
4.
What are the requirements to be a Senator?
5.
What are the requirements to be a Representative?
6.
Who presides over the Senate when the Vice President is gone?
7.
What is the most powerful position in the House of Representatives?
8.
Who/what has the power to declare laws of Congress unconstitutional?
9.
Explain the process of removing a President from office. What is the role of the House, and what is the role of the
Senate?
How many presidents have been impeached?
How many presidents have been impeached and convicted?
10. What is a bill of attainder?
11. What Article of the Constitution gives Congress its powers?
12. Why does Congress use committees?
13. Who must approve a bill before it reaches the President?
14. What is cloture?
15. What happens in a Conference Committee and when is it used?
16. What is a filibuster?
17. How can Congress override a President’s veto?
18. What is a pocket veto?
19. How can a bill become a law without the President’s signature?
20. What are the individual requirements to vote in a general election?
21. What can make an opinion poll inaccurate?
22. How does a candidate win the presidential election?
23. What advantages does an incumbent have in an election?
24. What is an interest group?
25. What is a lobbyist?
26. What are political action committees?
27. What is propaganda?
28. Who are Wisconsin’s senators?
29. Who represents Altoona in the House of Representatives?
30. Explain gerrymandering. When is it illegal?
31. Explain the difference between referendum and recall and give an example of each.
32. In complete sentences, give three ways (that we talked about in class) you can become an informed voter when you
turn 18.
33. Do you think interest groups and PACs have too much influence over elections? Explain in at least five sentences.
(You DO NOT have to do this one on the study guide.)