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Texas Gov. Exam 1 Review UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers Bicameral Legislature - CORRECT ANSWER - A law making body made of two houses (bi means 2). Example: Congress (our legislature) is made of two house - The House of Representatives and The Senate. Biennial Legislature -...

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Texas Gov. Exam 1 Review UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Bicameral Legislature - CORRECT ANSWER - A law making body made of two houses
(bi means 2). Example: Congress (our legislature) is made of two house - The House of
Representatives and The Senate.


Biennial Legislature - CORRECT ANSWER - A legislative body that meets in regular
session only once in a two-year period.


Bill of Rights - CORRECT ANSWER - A formal statement of the fundamental rights of
the people of the United States, incorporated in the Constitution as Amendments 1-10, and in all
state constitutions.


Categorical Grant - CORRECT ANSWER - A grant ($) given to the states by the federal
government for a specific purpose or program. The federal government tells the states exactly
how to spend the money (no state discretion unlike block grants). Example = Medicaid. Most
common type of federal grant because it gives Congress the most control over the states.


Checks and Balances - CORRECT ANSWER - A major principle of the American system
of government. Helps maintain separation of powers so that no one branch gets too powerful.
Explained in Federalist 51. Examples: President vetos laws; Senate confirms appointments &
treaties; Congress impeaches president & judges...


Concurrent Powers - CORRECT ANSWER - Powers that are given to both federal and
state governments. Ex., the power to tax and create courts. Exclusive powers are given only to
one level of government (ex., the power to declare war)


Confederacy - CORRECT ANSWER - A loose union of independent states; name of
government used by the southern states that seceded during the Civil War

, Constitutional Amendment - CORRECT ANSWER - a piecemeal change made to a
constitution like an amendment


Constitutional Convention - CORRECT ANSWER - The meeting of state delegates in
1787 in Philadelphia called to revise the Articles of Confederation. It instead designed a new
plan of government, the US Constitution.


Constitutional Law - CORRECT ANSWER - law that involves the interpretation and
application of the U.S. Constitution and state constitutions


Constitutional Revison - CORRECT ANSWER - a holistic and fundamental change made
to a constitution


Dedicated Funds - CORRECT ANSWER - constitutional requirement that restrict some
state tax or fee revenues to spending on specific programs (Highway Trust Fund can only spend
revenue on highway maintenance, etc)


Due process of law - CORRECT ANSWER - denies the government the right, without due
process, to deprive people of life, liberty, and property- the gov. must follow of the rules


Economic Triad - CORRECT ANSWER - Dallas-Houston-San Antonio



Federalism - CORRECT ANSWER - A system of government in which a written
constitution divides power between a central, or national, government and several regional
governments


Eminent Domain - CORRECT ANSWER - Power of a government to take private property
for public use; the U.S. Constitution gives national and state governments this power and
requires them to provide just compensation for property so taken.


General Law Cities - CORRECT ANSWER - Cities with fewer than 5,000 residents,
governed by a general state law rather than by a locally adopted charter.

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