POLS Exam 2 Question and answers correctly solved
The short, two-year terms in the House of Representatives were designed by the framers of the constitution to do which of the following? - correct answer Keep the house as close to the people as possible
Which institution of government does ...
POLS Exam 2 Question and answers
correctly solved
The short, two-year terms in the House of Representatives were designed by
the framers of the constitution to do which of the following? - correct answer
✔Keep the house as close to the people as possible
Which institution of government does the US population tend to trust least? -
correct answer ✔Congress
One aspect of the senate designed to insulate it from transient shifts in public
mood was which of the following? - correct answer ✔Only one third of the
senates membership stand for reelection every two years
One major difference between the House of Representatives and the Senate
is which of the following? - correct answer ✔The house allocate seats by
population; the Senate is composed of two members from each state
The qualification for office for the Senate and the house of representatives
contained in the constitution differ by which of the following? - correct answer
✔Age and length of citizenship
Article I, section 8 of the Constitution contains - correct answer ✔The
specific powers of the US Congress
The necessary and proper clause - correct answer ✔Provides lawmakers
with the single most expensive grant of power in the constitution so
lawmakers have authority over many different spheres of public policy
, All of the following are among the powers explicitly given to Congress except -
correct answer ✔The power to override a presidential veto with a simple
majority vote
In distributing power between the house and the senate, the final compromise
regarding the authority to raise or spend money required that bills raising
revenue originate in which of the following? - correct answer ✔The house,
with the Senate having an unrestricted right to amend them
Which of the following is not a way in which the executive branch can further
the balance of power between branches? - correct answer ✔The president
only invites his/her friends to parties at the White House
Proportional representation gives a party which of the following? - correct
answer ✔A share of seats in the legislature matching the share of those it
won on election day
Which of the following statements about the differences between presidential
and parliamentary systems is true? - correct answer ✔Members of Congress
are elected separately from the president
Which of the following statements about congressional districts in the House
of Representatives is accurate? - correct answer ✔Population movements
have meant that states in the south and the west have gained seats at the
expense of industrial states in the Northeast and Midwest
The term gerrymander refers to which of the following? - correct answer
✔The extensive manipulation of the shape of a legislative district to benefit a
certain incumbent or party
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