Lessons 10 & 11

Reapportionment is based on

• the size of the eligible voting population.

• population figures shown in the census.

• the number of representatives in each individual state.

• the total number of Senators and representatives in each state.

• the indices laid out in Article II of the Constitution.

Upon ratification, the Constitution directed for senators to be chosen by

• a general election

• the president

• the Supreme Court

• state legislatures

• existing senators

U.S. Senators were no longer chosen by state legislatures after the passage of the

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Sixteenth Amendment

• Seventeenth Amendment

• Nineteenth Amendment

• Twenty-first Amendment

A president can be impeached by the _________ and tried and removed from office by the

• House and Senate; Supreme Court

• House; House

• Senate; House

• House; Senate

• Senate; Senate

Which of the following powers is the exclusive power of the Senate?

• approve treaties

• charge impeachment

• redistrict

• originate revenue bills

• pocket veto

The power to declare war resides with the

• Senate only

• president only

• House of Representatives alone

• Armed Services Committee

• House and Senate together

Representatives elected from new districts after reapportionment tend to exhibit __________ than representatives from older districts.

• less polarized voting partisans

• more polarized voting patterns

• the same amount of polarized voting

• higher name recognition

• less polarized voting partisans and higher name recognition.

An incumbent advantage that permits members of Congress to keep in touch with constituents by sending mailings at the taxpayer’s expense is known as

• casework

• reciprocity

• gerrymandering

• communication allowance

• the franking privilege

Work performed by Congressional staff members on behalf of constituents is called

• franking

• appropriation

• unethical influence peddling

• lobbying

• casework

If you believe that citizens are most effectively represented by legislators who have similar demographic

characteristics -- such as being the same race, religion, or gender, -- then you have a belief in _____

representation.

• finite

• definitive

• formal

• descriptive

• general