Vocabulary Quiz on Legislative Branch

What does bicameral mean?

• consisting of two houses, as in a law-making body.

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

• legal protection

• the removal of a person from an institution, such as Congress, for serious misconduct

What does apportioned mean?

• consisting of two houses, as in a law-making body.

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

• legal protection

• the removal of a person from an institution, such as Congress, for serious misconduct

What is immunity?

• legal protection

• the removal of a person from an institution, such as Congress, for serious misconduct

• Meetings of Congress

• The presiding officer of the House of Representative

What does expulsion mean?

• legal protection

• the removal of a person from an institution, such as Congress, for serious misconduct

• Meetings of Congress

• The presiding officer of the House of Representative

What are sessions?

• Meetings of Congress

• The presiding officer of the House of Representative

• Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution; known also as the 'necessary and proper' clause that allows Congress to extend its delegated powers

• a proposed law being considered by a lawmaking body

Who is the Speaker of the House?

• Meetings of Congress

• The presiding officer of the House of Representative

• Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution; known also as the 'necessary and proper' clause that allows Congress to extend its delegated powers

• a proposed law being considered by a lawmaking body

What is the elastic clause?

• Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution; known also as the 'necessary and proper' clause that allows Congress to extend its delegated powers

• a proposed law being considered by a lawmaking body

• a refusal by the president or a governor to sign a bill

• a means by which the president can reject a bill, when congress is not in session, by not signing it.

What is a bill?

• a proposed law being considered by a lawmaking body

• a refusal by the president or a governor to sign a bill

• a means by which the president can reject a bill, when congress is not in session, by not signing it.

• a limit on the debate of a bill in the senate

What is a veto?

• a refusal by the president or a governor to sign a bill

• a means by which the president can reject a bill, when congress is not in session, by not signing it.

• a limit on the debate of a bill in the senate

• a proposed law being considered by a lawmaking body

What is a pocket veto?

• a means by which the president can reject a bill, when congress is not in session, by not signing it.

• a limit on the debate of a bill in the senate

• a proposed law being considered by a lawmaking body

• a refusal by the president or a governor to sign a bill