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Legislative Branch

Legislative Branch. Review Flash Cards Use your left or right arrows to advance forward or backwards. bicameral. A legislative body composed of two chambers. census . Official count of the population of the United States done every 10 years. concurrent powers.

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Legislative Branch

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  1. Legislative Branch Review Flash Cards Use your left or right arrows to advance forward or backwards.

  2. bicameral

  3. A legislative body composed of two chambers

  4. census

  5. Official count of the population of the United States done every 10 years

  6. concurrent powers

  7. Powers that both the national government and the states have

  8. delegated powers

  9. Powers expressly granted to the national government by the Constitution.

  10. elastic clause

  11. The clause in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution that gives Congress the right to make all laws, "necessary and proper" to carry out the powers expressed in the other clauses in Article I

  12. entitlements

  13. Government programs designed to help elderly, ill and unemployed citizens

  14. ex post facto laws

  15. A law applied to an act committed before the law's passage Forbidden by the Constitution

  16. filibuster

  17. The use of long speeches to prevent a vote on a bill in the Senate

  18. General Assembly

  19. The state legislative body in the state of Maryland consisting of the Senate and the House of Delegates

  20. geographic characteristics

  21. Physical and human characteristics of a place or region.

  22. Gerrymandering

  23. The dividing of a geographic area into an electoral district to give an unfair advantage to a party or group.

  24. Implied powers

  25. Magna Carta

  26. A document drawn up by English nobles in 1215 that spelled out certain rights and limited the King's power.

  27. public policy

  28. Government responses to public issues; all of the goals a government sets

  29. ratification

  30. Formal approval; final consent to the effectiveness of a constitution, constitutional amendment, or treaty.

  31. reapportionment

  32. Redistribution of political representation of the basis of population changes, usually after a census

  33. redistricting

  34. To set up new district lines after reapportionment is complete

  35. regions

  36. An area with one or more common characteristics of features, which give it a measure of homogeneity and make it different from surrounding areas.

  37. Reserved powers

  38. Those powers that the Constitution does not grant to the national government and does not, at the same time, deny to the states.

  39. Smart growth

  40. Government policy in Maryland to address the issues of urban sprawl, urban decay and environmental concerns such as the health of the Chesapeake Bay.

  41. tax

  42. Mandatory payment to the government

  43. urban sprawl

  44. Sprawl is the spreading out of a city and its suburbs over more and more rural land at the periphery of an urban area.

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