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- 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?
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- 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?