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WorksheetsLegislative Branch Review
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which of the following is an expressed power of Congress?
Commanding the armed forces
Creating treaties with other countries
Raising an army and navy
Appointing supreme court justices
Implied powers are created using the
Conference Committee
Elastic Clause
The Bill of Rights
The Writ of Habeous Corpus
Which of these is a responsibility of the Maryland General Assembly (The MD State Legislative Branch)?
approving the annual state budget
supervising the Maryland State Police
reviewing criminal appeals
vetoing unpopular laws
Every ten years the amounts of representatives per state is adjusted based on population. This is called
Apportionment
Restitution
The Electoral College
Readjustment
The process of redrawing congressional district boundaries to benefit one party is called
Apportionment
Gerrymandering
Polygoshing
Nibbnabbing
Once the need for a new law is identified, the first step in creating a new law is
Sending the bill to the other house of Congress
Debating a bill in Congress
Amending a bill in Congress
Introducing a bill in Congress
What is the specific purpose of Conference Committees?
Investigating important issues
Being the first committee to review laws
Combining different versions of the same bill to send one to the president
Creating denied powers
Which of the following is an advantage of the bicameral structure of congress?
There are two senates
Congress does not have to vote on every issue
That neither house can become too powerful
There are only two representative per state
The president has signed a military treaty with the European Union. Who must approve the treaty before it can take effect?
The House of Representatives
The Senate
The Supreme Court
The Vice President
Which of the following is an example of an implied power of Congress?
Authorizing the testing of nuclear weapons
Raising taxes
Establishing post offices
Creating patents (copyrights) for inventors
