Congress: Legislative Branch review

Act of Congress used in out of the ordinary circumstances and to propose constitutional amendments

• joint resolution

• Committee of the Whole

• Rules committee

• discharge petition

Congressional action that addresses matters that affect both the House and the Senate

• Concurrent resolution

• pocket veto

• joint resolution

• discharge petition

Amount by which the government's expenses exceed its revenue

• deficit

• direct tax

• inherent tax

• subpoena

Clause of the Constitution that gives Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce

• commerce clause

• necessary and proper clause

• inherent clause

• ex post facto laws

Legal document that requires a person to testify in a certain matter

• Subpoena

• ex post facto law

• implied powers

• writ of habeas corpus

Court order that forces the police to present a person in court to face charges

• writ of habeas corpus

• supoena

• indirect tax

• deficit

Type of law, explicitly forbidden by the Constitution, which punishes a person without a trial

• bill of attainder

• writ of habeas corpus

• subpoena

• deficit

Type of law, explicitly forbidden by the Constitution, which criminalizes actions that took place in the past but were legal at the time

• implied powers

• inherent law

• naturalization

• necessary and proper clause

Specific powers listed in the Constitution

• expressed powers

• implied powers

• naturalization

• subpeona

Members of the House of Representatives need to be at least __ years old

• 25

• 30

• 18

• 21