The Legislative Brance

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  1. 3. What committees are appointed to deal with special issues?
  2. 5. The right to mail official letters free of charge.
  3. 12. Court order requiring that an accused person be brought to court.
  4. 13. Procedure for accusing a high official of a serious crime.
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  1. 1. What are the people who live in a congressmembeer's home district or state called?
  2. 2. What is the name for the private meetings in which Republican Democratic members in each house choose their own leaders?
  3. 3. Which leader is the most powerful officer in the House?
  4. 4. What is the practice of drawing district lines that favor a particular group of people called?
  5. 6. The clause in the Constitution that allows Congress to stretch its powers to cover many other subjects.
  6. 7. A law that sentences a person to prison withour a trial.
  7. 8. What leader guides a party's proposed laws through Congress?
  8. 9. Which type of law would apply to an action that happened before the law was passed?
  9. 10. What term is used to describe the political party that has the most members in each house of Congress?
  10. 11. What is the term for the legal protection members of Congress have?
  11. 14. What type of leader tries to persuade members to vote for party-sponsored legislation?