Civics Ch 8 Vocab

A legislature consisting of two parts, or houses

• Bicameral
• veto
• caucus
• coalition

the official count of a population; conducted every ten years

• census
• veto
• Cloture
• Reapportionment

the process of reassigning representation based on population, after every census

• Reapportionment
• coalition
• pocket veto
• minority leader

Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.

• gerrymandering
• Reapportionment
• standing committees
• select committees

the geographic area that is served by one member in the House of Representatives

• congressional district
• caucus
• census
• Cloture

An electoral district in which voters choose one representative or official.

• single-member district
• majority leader
• coalition
• select committees

representing an entire state rather than a particular district

• at large
• franking privilege
• Bicameral
• joint committees

1913 constitutional amendment allowing American voters to directly elect US senators

• Seventeenth Amendment
• conference
• conference committees
• census

a group of individuals with a common interest on which every political party depends

• coalition
• single-member district
• term limits
• minority leader

A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.

• caucus
• filibuster
• congressional district
• chairs