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Who are constituents?
The people within a geographic area whom an elected official represents
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Who is the Speaker of the House?
Head of the House of Representatives
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What is Commander in chief?
The leadership position that allows the president to order troops into action and control the military
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What is an interest group?
A group of people is an association of people with similar views or goals
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What is 6 + 2= 8?
Length in years of a Senate term + the term in the House
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What is apportionment?
The distribution of House seats among the states based on population
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What is a whip?
The job of this position is to encourage fellow party members to vote as the party leadership wants
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What is a natural born citizen?
According to the Constitution, the president must be 35 years old, a resident of the US for 14 years and be ___
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What is a Super PAC?
A new innovation in campaign funding that allows people and corporations to give unlimited sums of money toward the election or defeat of a candidate
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What is 435- 100- 9= 326?
Number of Reps in the House - number of Senators - number of Supreme Court Justices
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What is 2/3?
To be removed from office, the House must first file charges of impeachment by simple majority, the Senate must vote by a margin of ___ or greater.
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Who is the President pro tempore?
The person that presides in absence of the "President of the Senate"
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What is the electoral college?
The system that we use to elect a president
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What is Engle v. Vitale
Supreme Court case that limited the use of prayer in public schools
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What is 18?
The Department of Homeland Security is the last position on the list of Presidential Successors. How many people have to die before Jeh Johnson becomes president?
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What are treaties?
According the Congressional powers to "advise and consent", Congress acts to approve Presidential appointments and ratify ____.
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What is a cloture vote?
In order to end debate in the senate
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What is an executive order?
A presidential legislative power over executive departments with the same force of law
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What is Evelyn, Eloise, and Amelia
The names of my kids
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What is 2 + 1 + 35= 38?
Number of presidents impeached + number of presidents resigned + the minimum age of the president
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What are Expressed Powers (of Congress)
For example: to levy taxes, coin money, to declare war, to make patent laws, to make laws necessary and proper...
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What is wait it out (let them filibuster) and change the rules?
The least likely choices that a majority party makes when confronted with a filibuster
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What is a pardon?
The power of the president to just free people from federal prison no questions asked. Awesome!
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Where is Mali?
Where I served in the Peace Corps
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What is 270 + 50 + 2 = 322?
Number of electoral votes needed to win the presidency + the number of states in the union+ number of dogs the Obama have
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