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| Two-year period of time during wchich Congress meets |
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| Period of time during which, each year, Congress assembles and conducts business |
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| Suspend, as in a session of Congress |
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| Adjourn, as in a legislative session |
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| An exrtaordinary session of a legislative body, called to deal with an emergency situation |
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| Distribute, as in seats in a legislative body |
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| Redistribute, as in seats in a legislative body |
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| Congressional election that occurs between presidential election years |
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| Electoral district from which one person is chosen by the voters for each elected office |
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| Election of an officeholder by the voters of an entire governmental unit (e.g. a State or country) rather than by the voters of a district or subdivision |
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| The drawing or electoral district lines to the advantage of a party or group |
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| Government unit (e.g. the United States Senate) whose seats are never all up for election at the same time |
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| The people and interests that an elected official represents |
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| Lawmaker who votes based on his or her conscience and judgment, not the views of his or her constituents |
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| Lawmaker who owes his/her first allegiance to his.her political party and votes according to the party line |
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| Lawmaker who attempts to balance the basic elements of the trustee, delegate, and partisan roles |
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| Review by legislative committees of the policies and programs of the eexecutive branch |
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| Benefit allowing members of Congress to mail letters and other materials postage-free |
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| Those delegated powers of the National Government that are spelled out, expressly, in the Constitution; also called the "enumerated powers" |
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| Those delegated powersof the National Government that are suggested by the expressed powers set out in the Constitution; those "necessary and proper" to carry out the expressed powers |
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| Powers the Constitution is presumed to have delegated to the National Government because it is the government of a sovereign state within the world community |
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| One who argues a narrow interpretation of the Constitution's provisions, in particular those granting powers to the Federal Government |
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| One who argues a broad interpretation of the provisions of the Constitution, particularly those granting powers to the Federal Constitution |
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| General agreement among various groips on fundamental matters; broad agreement on publis questions |
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| A charge levied by government on persons or property to meet public needs |
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| A charge levied by government on persons or property to meet public needs |
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| A tax levied on one party but passed on to another for payment |
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| A tax that must be paid by the person on whom it is levied |
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| Practice of gunding government by borrowing to make up the difference between government spending and revenue |
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| All of the money borrowed by the government and bot yet repaid, pklus the accrued interest on that money; also called the national debt or federal debt |
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| Exclusive power of Congress to regulate interstae and foreign trade |
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| Any kind of monoey that a creditor must, by law, accept in payment for debts |
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| The legal proceeding by which a bankrupt person's assets are distributed among those to whom he or she owes debts |
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