Foundations/Legislative Branch - Government - REVIEW

Who serves as the presiding officer of the Senate?

• The Speaker of the Senate
• The Vice President of the U.S.
• The Senate Majority Leader
• The Minority Leader of the Senate

How is the number of a state’s representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives determined?

• By population based on the U.S. census
• By population based on a state report.
• By the Constitution, which specifies 2 representatives per state.
• By each state according to the number of state legislators.

Which guideline is considered the most important for determining the boundaries for house and senate election districts every ten years?

• Incumbent members district boundaries.
• Equal population splits among districts.
• The dominant political party in power at the time of drawing boundaries.
• Maintaining logical city and county boundaries.

This house of Congress has 100 members and includes only 2 from each state

• House of Representatives
• Senate
• President
• Supreme Court

This house of Congress has 435 members with the number of members based on each state's population

• House of Representatives
• Senate
• President
• Supreme Court

The bicameral structure of Congress arose from

• an agreement made at the First Continental Congress.

• the attempt to model the U.S. government after that of Great Britain.

• a disagreement about representation at the Constitutional Convention.

• our federal form of government.

What determines congressional apportionment for each state?

• Gerrymandering

• Political parties

• Population

• Registered voters

Congress's power to coin money is

• an elastic power

• an enumerated power

• an implied power

• a nonlegislative power

A twenty-eight-year-old citizen could be elected

• to the House of the Senate

• to neither house of Congress

• only to the House of Representatives

• only to the Senate

What qualification do both houses of congress have in common?

• Members must be born in the United States

• Members must be at least 30 years old

• Members must graduate from college

• Members must live in the state they represent.