The Legislative Branch

A lawmaking body made up of two chambers or parts

• Filibuster

• Bicameral legislature

• Legislative Branch

• Speaker of the House

Direct election of senators

• 16th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

• 23rd Amendment

• 22nd Amendment

A veto taking place when Congress adjourns within 10 days of submitting a bill to the president, who simply lets it die by neither signing nor vetoing it.

• Filibuster

• Legislative bills

• Impeachment

• Pocket Veto

The vice president is also the...

• President of the Senate

• Speaker of the House

• Power of the Purse

• President Pro Tempore

The leader of the majority party who serves as the presiding officer of the House of Representatives.

• President of the Senate

• House of Representatives

• Speaker of the House

• Majority Leader

Constitutional power given to Congress to raise and spend money.

• Power of the Purse

• Speaker of the House

• Impeachment

• House of Representatives

The proposal at the Constitutional Convention that called for equal representation of each state in Congress regardless of the state's population.

• Virginia Plan

• House of Repdresentatives

• Electoral College

• New Jersey Plan

"Large State" proposal for the new constitution, calling for proportional representation in both houses of bicameral Congress.

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• Great Compromise

• 3/5 Compromise

People who represent interest groups

• Lobbyists

• Cabinets

• Interest Groups

• Colonists

Allows the federal government to collect income tax.

• 17th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

• 22nd Amendment

• 23rd Amendment