Gov - Chapter 10
Terms
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- Congressional terms
- 2-year term made of 2 1-year sessions. Starts Jan 3, ajourns mid-Dec with 3-4 recesses
- Official ending of Congressional session
- Adjournment
- Neither house can adjourn w/out permission of the other
- Sine Die
- President can call this if he feels necessary, hasn't happened since 1948
- special session
- Dividing legislative disctricts for the first time
- apportionment
- Dividing districts after the first time
- reapportionment
- States that have only one rep
- Representatives at large
- # of reps altogether
- 435 - max number acording to reapportionment act of 1929
- legislative representational unit
- district
- Taken every 10 years for tabulation of population for the purpose of representation - done by state legis
- census
- illegal drawing of district lines
- gerrymandering
- verbal reprimand
- censure
- Qualifications of House member:
- 25, American citizen, live in state you represent
- Court case - districts must be as equal in population size as possible
- Westbury-Sanders cause
- Court case - "one man, one vote" - all votes have same power
- Reynolds-Sims
- Qualifications for Senators
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30, Natural-born or naturalized citizen, live in state represented.
Serve 6 year terms - 2/3 of Senate automatically returns, 1/3 up for election at end of Senate term
- continuous body/rotational elecion system
- Stats of Legi
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-50%+ Republic in House and Senate currently
- 90% men
- 90-95% Caucasian
-93% have college degrees - Compensation for house/senate members
- $150,000/yr
- the people represented
- constituents
- members of House + Senate make sure executive enforces laws that have been passed
- oversight function
- Special priveleges of House/Senate members (2)
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1. Franking - free postal service
2. Legislative immunity - Free speech on floor of House or Senate - 27th amendment
- Congress can vote themselves a raise but it is not effective until their next term