PSCI 1104 Legislative, Executive, Social Skills Vocab 2021

The Name given to the national legislature of the United States

• Congress
• Presidency
• House of Representatives
• Senate

The Lower House of Congress with 435 members where different states send representatives based upon the population of the state

• Congress
• Presidency
• House of Representatives
• Senate

The process of distributing seats in a legislature. This can be be based on population or equal representation.

• Apportionment

• Reapportionment

• Redistricting

• Gerrymandering

The process of reassigning representatives to each state after the census that happens every 10 years in order to ensure that all states have representation that reflects their population based upon population growth and loss from each state.

• Reapportionment
• Apportionment
• Gerrymandering
• Judicial Review

The upper house of the United States congress where states are represented based upon equal representation (2 members from each state).

• Congress
• Senate
• House of Representatives
• General Assembly

A congressional function where officials are removed from office following action in the House of Representatives and a trial in the Senate for "treason, bribery, or high crimes or misdemeanors."

• Oversight

• Impeachment

• Rules and Regulations

• Executive Order

Agreements signed between other nations and the President of the United States that requires a 2/3s concurrence of the Senate

• Executive Orders
• Treaties
• Impeachments
• Oversights

a process of inducing others into accepting a point of view by means of reasoning and argumentation.

• Persuasion
• Negotiation
• Compromise
• Consensus Building

A process of settling differences through a discussion of the issues.

• Persuasion
• Negotiation
• Compromise
• Consensus Building

A process of giving something up in order to settle differences.

• Persuasion
• Negotiation
• Compromise 
• Consensus Building