UNIT 3 STUDY GUIDE
ANSWERS
QUALIFICATIONS
Senate
•30 Years Old
•9 Years
Citizen U.S.
•Resident of
State
House of
Representatives
•25 Years old
•7 Years Citizen
U.S.
•Resident of District
5 LIMITATIONS OF GOVERNMENT
•Bill of Attainder
•Ex Post facto Laws
•Suspend Habeas
Corpus
•Grant Nobility,
•Tax Exports
MOST POWERFUL MEMBER OF
SENATE
•Majority Leader
IMPLIED POWERS
• Not written but inferred
ELASTIC CLAUSE
•The Necessary and proper clause
CONCURRENT POWERS
•Powers that are shared
•Collect taxes, Borrow money,
and make laws
WHAT IS THE NAME OF GEORGIA
LEGISLATURE
•General Assembly
DELEGATED POWERS
• Those powers expressed, implied, or inherent,
granted to the national government by the
constitution.
• Coin Money
• Declare War
• Levi Tariffs/taxes
• Regulate trade
CHECKS AND BALANCES
• System of overlapping the powers of the
branches
HOW DO THEY CHECK
• President can veto laws created by
congress
• Congress approves appointments by
president
4 POWERS OF SENATE
• Electoral College for Vice President,
Impeachment Trial, Treaties, and
Presidential appointments
HOUSE POWERS
•Appropriations
•Impeachment investigation
•Electoral College President
PRESIDENT OF SENATE
• Always the VP
REPRESENTATION FOR EACH STATE
•Population
VOTE REQUIRED TO OVERRIDE
PRESIDENT
• 2/3
LIMITED GOVERNMENT
•The government can only do those
things that are delegated to it
CABINET MAKEUP
• Secretaries of Executive Departments
NAACP IS
• Special interest Group
EPA IS
• Regulatory Commission
GOVERNMENT CORPORATION
• A legal entity created by a government to
undertake commercial activities
CABINET MEETINGS LED BY
• President
MAIN PURPOSE OF LEGISLATIVE
BRANCH
• Make Laws
RESERVED POWERS
• Powers not given to the national
government
• Education, License, Marriage
ROLE OF SPEAKER OF HOUSE
• To preside and keep order
1/3 OF SENATORS ELECTED WHY
• To make sure there are experience senators within
the senate
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
• TO resolve issues
MEMBERS OF HOUSE
•435
INTEREST GROUPS DO
• Campaign Contributions,
• Encourage members to write their reps
• Hire Lobbyists to speak
LOBBYISTS
• Support bills they favor and oppose bills they
do not like for their special interest group
DISCLOSURE ACT
• Tighten government control on lobbying
and made lobbyist register
GEORGIA REPS
• 180
PURPOSE OF COMMITTEES
• Divide the work of congress among smaller
groups
MAIN JOB OF SPECIAL INTEREST
GROUPS
• Influence government decision to benefit their
group members
TERM LENGTH FOR CONGRESS
• 2 years
BILL ON PRESIDENT DESK, 10 DAYS,
NOT SIGNED
• Pocket veto
BICAMERAL LEGISLATION
• 2 houses
PURPOSE OF CABINET
• TO advise the president
EXAMPLE OF GOV’T
CORPORATION
• USPS, TVA
PETA, NRA, MADD, NAACP
• Special Interest Group