2425 Government Unit 2 Vocab Review

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

• census

• gerrymandering

• reapportionment

• redistrict

to draw a district's boundaries to gain an advantage in elections

• gerrymandering

• reapportionment

• redistrict

• at large

An unwritten rule declaring that if four of the nine justices agree to hear a case, it will be scheduled for argument.

• redistrict

• reapportionment

• rule of four

• gerrymandering

Senate member, elected by the Senate, who stands in as president of the Senate in the absence of the vice president.

• majority leader

• hold

• president pro tempore

• filibuster

system that gives the member of the majority party with the longest uninterrupted service on a particular committee the leadership of that committee.

• seniority system

• majority party

• minority party

• spoils system

Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, which gives Congress the power to make all laws that are necessary and proper for carrying out its duties

• implied powers

• expressed powers

• impeachment

• necessary and proper clause

bill that establishes a program and says how much can be spent on the program

• revenue bill

• authorization bill

• appropriations bill

• interstate commerice

power of an executive to reject one or more items in a bill without vetoing the entire bill

• line item veto

• impoundment

• impeachment

• national budget

laws that are passed by Congress to appropriate money for local federal projects

• logrolling

• appropriations bill

• authorization bill

• pork-barrel legislation

military court designed to try members of enemy forces during wartime, operating outside the scope of conventional criminal and civil proceedings

• national security

• treaty

• military tribunal

• reauthorize