Legislative Branch Test-Shelly Krumenacker

5. proposed or enacted law or group of laws
6. political party with the greatest number of members in a legislature
7. law that affects an act done in the past, effectively allowing the government to punish a person for committing an act before the act was illegal.
9. area within a state representing about 600,000 people. Each member of the house of representative represents the people in one district
10. permanent group of house and senate members responsible for laws in a specific subject area
14. Written order that a prisoner be brought before a judge.It ensure that a person is not held in jail without being charged with crime. Congress cannot take away the right to a writ except in time of invasion or civil war.
16. Group of house or senate member who work to reconcil different versions of the same bill passed by house and senate.
17. Composed of two legislative chambers.

1. senator who presides over the U.S. Senate in the absence of the vice president.
2. group of house and senate members formed to study an issue not addressed by a standing committee or to investigate a particular event.
3. permanent group of house and senate members who investigate issues related to legislation; they have no power to draft legislation.
4. member of the majority party elected to lead the U.s. house of representatives.
8. member of a legislative body who helps the party leader by encouraging party members' loyalty and support.
11. Part of article 1, section 8, of the Constitution that gives Congress the power of make laws necessary for carrying out its duties.
12. Legislative act making a person guilty of a crime without trail.
13. political party with the second greatest number of members in a legislature
15. member of the house or senate chosen by fellow party members to be in charge of some of the party's activities in the legislature.
17. Propsoed law presented for approval to a legislative body.