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Legislative Branch Review

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following is an expressed power of Congress?

a)

Commanding the armed forces

b)

Creating treaties with other countries

c)

Raising an army and navy

d)

Appointing supreme court justices

2.

Implied powers are created using the

a)

Conference Committee

b)

Elastic Clause

c)

The Bill of Rights

d)

The Writ of Habeous Corpus

3.

Which of these is a responsibility of the Maryland General Assembly (The MD State Legislative Branch)?

a)

approving the annual state budget

b)

supervising the Maryland State Police

c)

reviewing criminal appeals

d)

vetoing unpopular laws

4.

Every ten years the amounts of representatives per state is adjusted based on population. This is called

a)

Apportionment

b)

Restitution

c)

The Electoral College

d)

Readjustment

5.

The process of redrawing congressional district boundaries to benefit one party is called

a)

Apportionment

b)

Gerrymandering

c)

Polygoshing

d)

Nibbnabbing

6.

Once the need for a new law is identified, the first step in creating a new law is

a)

Sending the bill to the other house of Congress

b)

Debating a bill in Congress

c)

Amending a bill in Congress

d)

Introducing a bill in Congress

7.

What is the specific purpose of Conference Committees?

a)

Investigating important issues

b)

Being the first committee to review laws

c)

Combining different versions of the same bill to send one to the president

d)

Creating denied powers

8.

Which of the following is an advantage of the bicameral structure of congress?

a)

There are two senates

b)

Congress does not have to vote on every issue

c)

That neither house can become too powerful

d)

There are only two representative per state

9.

The president has signed a military treaty with the European Union. Who must approve the treaty before it can take effect?

a)

The House of Representatives

b)

The Senate

c)

The Supreme Court

d)

The Vice President

10.

Which of the following is an example of an implied power of Congress?

a)

Authorizing the testing of nuclear weapons

b)

Raising taxes

c)

Establishing post offices

d)

Creating patents (copyrights) for inventors