Civics Ch 8 Vocab

A legislature consisting of two parts, or houses

• Bicameral

• veto

• caucus

• coalition

the official count of a population; conducted every ten years

• census

• veto

• Cloture

• Reapportionment

the process of reassigning representation based on population, after every census

• Reapportionment

• coalition

• pocket veto

• minority leader

Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.

• gerrymandering

• Reapportionment

• standing committees

• select committees

the geographic area that is served by one member in the House of Representatives

• congressional district

• caucus

• census

• Cloture

An electoral district in which voters choose one representative or official.

• single-member district

• majority leader

• coalition

• select committees

representing an entire state rather than a particular district

• at large

• franking privilege

• Bicameral

• joint committees

1913 constitutional amendment allowing American voters to directly elect US senators

• Seventeenth Amendment

• conference

• conference committees

• census

a group of individuals with a common interest on which every political party depends

• coalition

• single-member district

• term limits

• minority leader

A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.

• caucus

• filibuster

• congressional district

• chairs