WGU C963 Politics and Constitution
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WGU C963 Politics and Constitution
- implied power (definition)
Answer: the powers not specifically detailed in the U.S. Constitution but inferred as necessary to achieve the objectives of the national government.
- enumerated powers (definition)
Answer: The powers given explicitly to the federal government by the Constitution (Article I, Section 8); power to regulate interstate and foreign commerce, raise and support armies, declare war, coin money, and conduct foreign affairs.
- inherent powers (definition)
Answer: the powers neither enumerated nor implied but assumed to exist as a direct result of the country's existence
- Powers of the Legislative Branch
Answer: tax citizens, set the budget, regulate commerce, declare war, provide advice and consent on appointments, impeach individuals, oversee the powers of the judicial and executive branches
- Implied Congressional powers
Answer: oversee branches of government
- Enumerated Congressional powers
Answer: the power to levy and collect taxes, declare war, raise an army and navy, coin money, borrow money, regulate commerce among the states and with foreign nations, establish federal courts and bankruptcy rules, establish rules for immigration and naturalization, and issue patents and copyrights
- Inherited Congressional Powers
Answer: the power to control borders of the state, the power to expand the territory of the state, and the power to defend itself from internal revolution or coups
- Ways the legislative branch engages in checks and balances with other branches
Answer: advice and consent, impeachment, and oversight
- Congress exercising its power under the Commerce Clause
Answer: Regulate commerce, set minimum wages, prohibiting discrimination in workforce
- How a bill becomes a law
Answer:
1) The bill is introduced and given to the appropriate standing committee.2) The bill is sent to the Rules Committee.3) The bill is debated in the House of Representatives and Senate with the possibility of a 2 / 3
filibuster in the Senate.4) The bill is voted upon by the House of Representatives and the Senate.5) The bill is sent to the conference committee to form one unified bill.6) The unified bill is sent back to the House of Representatives and Senate to be voted upon.7) The bill goes to the president for signature or veto. If vetoed, Congress has the ability to override the veto.
- standing committee
Answer: permanent committees that exist from session to session for the purpose of researching, writing, and introducing proposed pieces of legislation
- select committee
Answer: temporary committees established to investigate a particular issues or policy area not covered by a standing committee.
- joint committee
Answer: Committees that have both members of the House of Representatives and the Senate serving and working together.
- conference committee
Answer: a type of joint committee whose job it is to form one unified bill from of different versions of the same piece of legislation passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate to be sent to the President
- Reapportionment
Answer: the reallocation of seats in the House or Representatives based on changes in a state's population since the last census
- Redistricting
Answer: the re-drawing of electoral districts to accommodate for changes in a state's population based on the last census. The goal is to create districts that are equal in population
- Gerrymandering
Answer: the illegal re-drawing of electoral districts to provide an unfair electoral advantage based on political party or race.
- Census
Answer: a population count. The United States completes a census every 10 years.
- Importance of Census
Answer: determines state's seats for congress, state's number of votes for electoral college
- Miller v. Johnson (1995)
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Answer: the Supreme Court ruled that, under the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause, race