Chapter 5 Vocab Only (CV)

a lawmaking body of two houses

• gerrymander

• censure

• bicameral legislature

• sessions

to be distributed, as in the seats in the House of Representatives

• apportioned

• explusion

• caucuses

• act

the process of drawing congressional district lines to favor a political party

• apportioned

• immunity

• terason

• gerrymandering

The removal of a person from an institution, such as Congress, for serious misconduct.

• censure

• expulsion

• immunity

• treason

The formal disapproval of the actions of a member of Congress by the other members.

• expulsion

• gerrymandering

• censure

• caucuses

legal protection

• treason

• immunity

• apportioned

• act

Meetings of Congress (last one year)

• caucuses

• bicameral legislature

• term

• sessions

meetings of party leaders to determine party policy or to choose the party's candidates for public office

• gerrymandering

• term

• sessions

• caucuses

an act that betrays and endangers one's country

• treason

• gerrymandering

• appropriation bill

• censure

a bill approving the spending of extra public money

• act

• gerrymandering

• appropriation bill

• apportioned