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C1-$100 Key terms- $100 A motion to force a bill to the Hose floor that has been bottled up in a committee. Discharge Petition

C1-$200 Key temrs- $200 Works out a compromise between differing House – Senate version of a bill Conference Committee

C1-$300 Key terms- $300 The people who are represented by elected officials Constituents

C1-$400 Key terms- $400 Senate Committee that handles tax bills Finance Committee

C1-$500 Key terms- $500 Keeping track of government operation by a congressional committee to ensure rules and regulations are being allowed Congressional oversight

C2-$100 important people important people- $100 Chief spokesperson of the majority party Senate Majority Leader

C2-$200 Important people- $200 Elected by the U.S. Congressman in the political party holding the largest number of seats in the house Majority Leader of the House of Reps

C2-$300 Important people- $300 Last person the bill needs to get signed by in order for It to become a law. This person may also veto the bill President of the U.S.

C2-$400 Important people- $400 This person preside over the senate, sign legislation, and issue the oath of office to new senators President pro tempore

C2-$500 Important people- $500 making process in a parliamentary legislature (party enforcers) Minority Whip

C3-$100 Random - $100 Describes how prices vary as a result of a balance between product availability and demand. Supply and Demand Graph

C3-$200 Random- $200 Raising and spending money to elect and also defeat a certain candidate PAC’s

C3-$300 Random- $300 Large amount of money granted by the national gov to a regional gov w only general provision as to the way it is to be spent Block Grant

C3-$400 Random- $400 System of gov in which sovereignty is divided between a central government and political units Federalism

C3-$500 Random- $500 Practice of exchanging favors by reciprocal voting for each others purposed legislation Logrolling

C4-$100 Congress - $100 Where must bills of impeachment must originate from? The House of Representatives

C3-200 Congress- $200 Who can consent to treaties as a precondition to their ratification? The Senate

C3-$300 Congress- $300 A prolonged speech that obstructs progress in a legislative assembly while not technically contravening the required procedure A Filibuster

C3-$400 congress- $400 How can the senate approve treaties made by the Executive branch? By a 2/3 vote

C3-$500 Congress- $500 What happens to a bill if the president doesn’t sign it or veto it after ten days of its presentation Automatically becomes a bill if congress still in session

C4-$100 Courtcases - $100 Established its role as the arbiter of the constitutionality of federal laws, judicial review Marbury v. Madison

C4-$200 Courtcases- $200 Decision stems from the Yazoo land cases, 1803, upholds the sanctity of contracts Fletcher v Peck

C4-$300 Courtcases - $300 States cannot tax the federal government, i.e. the bank of U.S. “ the power to tax is the power to destroy” Mcculloh v Maryland

C4-$400 Courtcases - $400 Clarified the commerce clause and affirmed congressional power over interstate commerce Gibbson v Ogden

C4-$500 Courtcases - $500 The interest of the community are more important than the interest of the business; supremacy of society’s interest over private interest Charles River Bridge v Warren Bridge

C4-$100 Amendments - $100 Citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, was purposed after formerslaves of American Civil War 14 th Amendment

C4-$200 Amendments- $200 Established direct election of U.S. senator by popular vote 17 th amendment

C4-$300 Amendments - $300 Allows congress it levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the U.S. Census 16 th amendment

C4-$400 Amendments - $400 Establishes the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the U.S. by declaring the production, transports and sales of alcohol illegal 18 th amendment

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