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6. An emergency arises and the President needs to call Congress together. This is called:

7. What is a special session?

8. The exclusive legal right to copy, sell, or publish a piece of creative work is called:

9. What is a copyright?

10. A grant for the exclusive right to make, use or sell new or improved inventions is called:

11. What is a patent?

12. This is voted on by either house of Congress but has no force of law or require the President’s signature:

13. What is a resolution?

14. This is a provision attached to an important bill

15. What is a rider?

16. The majority of the full membership of either house is called?

17. What is a quorum?

18. The is Senate is the sole _________ in Congress.

19. What is a continuous body

20. Who can introduce bills to the Senate?

21. Who are individual senators?

22. Who does Congress share foreign relations power with?

23. Who is the President?

24. The House of Representatives has this power to bring charges against either the President or the Vice President.

25. What is the power to impeach?

26. This house of Congress has the right to approve treaties

27. What is the Senate?

28. According to our Constitution __________ has the sole power to declare war.

29. What is Congress?

30. This sets the number of seats each state can have in the Senate.

31. What is the Constitution?

32. Senators serve _____ year terms

33. What are 6?

34. You must have been a citizen for at least nine (9) years to member of this house.

35. What is the Senate?

36. The number of members in the House of Representatives is

37. What are 435 members

38. This is what happens when members of a political party redraw district lines to benefit themselves

39. What is gerrymandering

40. If you are at least 25 years old, have been a U.S. citizen for at least 7 years, and you live in the State where you are elected qualifies you to be

41. What is a member of the House of Representatives?

42. How many seats in the Senate is each state allotted?

43. What are 2?

44. Article I, Section 8, Clause 5 gives Congress this power.

45. What is to coin money and regulate the value

46. The Federal Government can take private property for public use with this inherent power

47. What is eminent domain?

48. The most important posts in Congress will be given to members with the longest records of service. This is the custom of:

49. What is seniority rule?

50. Committees set up for a specific purpose and a limited time.

51. What are select/special committees?

52. This enables members to force a bill that has been in committee for 30 days onto the floor for consideration

53. What is a discharge petition?

54. A stalling tactic senators use to monopolize the floor to basically “talk a bill to death”

55. What is a filibuster?

56. Make your wager

57. What clause gives Congress the right to “to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper” for executing its powers?

58. What is the Necessary and Proper Clause, or the Elastic Clause?