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Bicameral
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having two branches, chambers, or houses, as a legislative body.
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Senator's term
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who serve staggered six-year terms.
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House of Representative's term
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serve for two-year terms, while the Resident Commissioner serves for four years.
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Redistricting
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the process of drawing United States electoral district boundaries, often in response to population changes determined by the results of the decennial census.
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Gerrymandering
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Make the district into your favor. by manipulating district boundaries to create partisan advantaged districts.
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Standing Committee
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are permanent legislative panels established by the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate rules.
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Joint Committee
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a committee made up of members of both chambers of a bicameral legislature.
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Cloture
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is a motion or process in parliamentary procedure aimed at bringing debate to a quick end.
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Filibuster
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debate is extended, allowing one or more members to delay or entirely prevent a vote on a given proposal.
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Veto
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Latin for "I forbid" – is the power (used by an officer of the state, for example) to unilaterally stop an official action, especially the enactment of legislation.
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Great Society
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social reforms were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.
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New Deal
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was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1936, and a few that came later. They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term (1933–37) of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Qualifications to be president
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No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
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Bureaucracy
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a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives.
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Criminal case
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A case brought to court that seems to offend(meaning he broke the laws) an entire community/state/country and not just one person or family.
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Civil case
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A case brought to court that offends just a person or family.
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Appeal
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apply to a higher court for a reversal of the decision of a lower court.
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Court of Appeals
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The 94 U.S. judicial districts are organized into 12 regional circuits, each of which has a United States court of appeals. A court of appeals hears appeals from the district courts located within its circuit, as well as appeals from decisions of federal administrative agencies.
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District Courts
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are the trial courts of the federal court system.
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Judiciary Act of 1789
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It established the U.S. federal judiciary. Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution prescribed that the " power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court," and such inferior courts as Congress saw fit to establish. It made no provision, though, for the composition or procedures of any of the courts, leaving this to Congress to decide.
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12th Amendment
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the United States Constitution provides the procedure for electing the President and Vice President.
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16th Amendment
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to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census.
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22nd Amendment
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sets a term limit for election to the office of President of the United States. Congress passed the amendment on March 21, 1947. It was ratified by the requisite number of states on February 27, 1951.
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17th Amendment
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an amendment to the U.S. constitution, ratified in 1913, providing for the election of two U.S. senators from each state by popular vote and for a term of six years.
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“fireside chat”
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Roosevelt was not actually sitting beside a fireplace when he delivered the speeches, but behind a microphone-covered desk in the White House.
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