- Sometimes referred to as delegated powers, these powers are specifically granted to the national government by the Constitution
Your answer:
impeachable powers
expressed powers
undeniable powers
implied powers
- Freedom from arrest granted to members of Congress while they are attending or traveling to and from legislative sessions
Your answer:
franking privilege
legislative freedoms
congressional protections
congressional immunity
- To bring criminal charges against a government official for “high crimes and misdemeanors” (in the executive and judicial branches of our national government)
Your answer:
indict
patent
impeach
gerrymander
- A project or grant of funds that chiefly benefits a legislator's home district
Your answer:
pork barrel project
congressional perquisite
apportionment
enabling legislation
- To redraw the boundary lines of legislative districts (most often, after a census is taken)
Your answer:
legislative veto
redistrict
implied power
reapportionment
- A system of election by which the voters of a city, state, or country -- as a whole -- elect government officials
Your answer:
perquisite
split ticket voting
at large
single member district
- An official survey of the population of the U.S., taken to determine how representatives should be re-apportioned among the states
Your answer:
perquisite
expressed power
concensus
census
- A tax paid on specific activities, services, or goods (such as alcohol, tobacco, or gasoline) that are produced, manufactured, sold, transported, or used within the U.S.
Your answer:
excise tax
national sales tax
federal tax
value added tax
- To draw district boundary lines in such a way that favors a particular candidate of political party, or reduces the voting power of a racial or ethnic group
Your answer:
political socialization
copyright
impeach
gerrymander
- A benefit, allowance, or service that is awarded in addition to a regular salary
Your answer:
apportionment
incumbent
patent
perquisite
- The region stretching across the U.S. from the southeastern Atlantic coast to southern California, where most population growth has happened since World War Two
Your answer:
Sunbelt
Rustbelt
Rocky Mountain West
Solid South
- Free postal service for mail sent by members of Congress to their constituents
Your answer:
perquisite
expressed power
congressional immunity
franking privilege
- Work done by public officials (or by members of their staff) to help individual constituents solve problems
Your answer:
implied powers
redistrict
casework
censure
- Clause in the Constitution that gives Congress the right to pass any laws that are "necessary and proper" to carry out its lawmaking and other functions
Your answer:
commerce clause
Article One
Bill of Rights
elastic clause
- Routes over which the mail is carried (and, therefore, can be maintained by the federal government)
Your answer:
post roads
federal interstates
state highways
county roads
- The redistribution of legislative seats (most often after a census is taken)
Your answer:
redistricting
congressional immunity
reapportionment
gerrymandering
- The exclusive right to publish, produce, distribute, perform, display, or sell a literary or artistic work
Your answer:
copyright
apportionment
census
patent
- The power of Congress to review or cancel an action taken by the executive branch
Your answer:
congressional veto
legislative veto
pocket veto
veto
- An official declaration of disapproval of the actions of a member of Congress
Your answer:
congressional immunity
impeach
dislocation
censure
- The rules and guidelines for behavior of the members of Congress
Your answer:
congressional reservations
code of ethics
bill of attainder
legal rights and responsibilities
- Those powers of the national government that are not specifically stated in the Constitution but that derive from the elastic clause
Your answer:
states rights
elastic powers
implied powers
reserved powers
- The exclusive right to produce, sell, or use an invention
Your answer:
implied power
franking privilege
patent
copyright
- A tax on goods imported into a country (through customs officials)
Your answer:
sales tax
duty
excise tax
value added tax
- A person who holds a political office is called this, most often when he or she is running for re-election
Your answer:
member of congress
challenger
incumbent
senator