Grade 11 T1 - Revision - Chapters 01 to 08

7. How many total voting members serve in the United States Congress, combining both chambers?
9. Gerrymandering is the practice of redrawing legislative district lines to give one political party what?
10. What occurs when a president refuses to sign a bill passed during the last ten days of a session?
11. To prevent absolute power, into how many distinct components did the Founders divide the federal government?
13. Anti-Federalists argued that a Bill of Rights was necessary to protect individual liberty and do what?
15. The Supremacy Clause in Article VI establishes what document as the highest law of the land?
16. According to the Tenth Amendment, powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved to whom?

1. The five functions of government include leadership, order, public services, national security, and what other type of security?
2. According to the Constitution, in which specific chamber of Congress must all revenue bills originate?
3. Local governments use zoning ordinances as a primary public policy tool to manage what?
4. Unlike a bicameral legislature, a unicameral legislature is made up of how many lawmaking houses?
5. Which house of Congress holds the specific nonlegislative power to conduct a trial after an official is impeached?
6. The Elastic Clause allows Congress to stretch its authority to exercise what type of non-explicit powers?
8. The Connecticut Compromise established a federal government with what type of two-house legislative branch?
12. A political community must possess a population, territory, government, and what essential feature to be considered a state?
14. Federalism is a system of government where power is divided and shared between which two levels of government?