Congress- Chapter 7

2.1 Congess: The Senate and the House of Representatives

Big Idea and Learning Objective: Constitutionalism (CON-3A)

Key Terms:

Senate, house chamber sizes, constituencies, term-lengths in Congress, Enumerated Powers (including passing a budge, raising revenue, coining money, declaring war, and maintaining armed forces), implied powers, necessary and proper clause

Foundational Documents:

The Constitution of the United States

2.2: Structures, Powers and Functions of Congress

Big Idea and Learning Objective: Constitutionalism (CON-3B)

Key Terms:

Policy making process, congressional standing committees, speaker of the house, president of the senate, party leadership in Congress, committee leadership, filibuster and cloture, holds, unanimous consent, rules committee, committee of the whole, discharge petitions, treaty ratification, confirmation, federal budget, discretionary spending, mandatory spending, entitlement spending, tax revenues, budget deficit, pork barrel, logrolling

2.3: Congressional Behavior

Big Idea and Learning Objective: Constitutionalism (CON-3C)

Topic 3:

Key Terms:

Party polarization, gerrymandering, redistricting, “one person, one vote”, divided government, lame-duck, trustee, delegate, politico

Required Cases:

Baker v. Carr (1961) Shaw v. Reno (1993)

Chapter 8: The Presidency

2.4 Roles and Powers of the President

Big Idea and Learning Objective: Constitutionalism (CON-4A)

Key Terms:

Formal Powers, informal powers, vetoes, pocket vetoes, commander-in-chief, treaties, executive agreements, executive orders, signing statements

Foundational Documents:

The Constitution of the United States

2.5 Checks on the President

Big Idea and Learning Objective: Constitutionalism (CON-4B)

Key Terms:

Appointments (Cabinet Members, ambassadors, white house staff, federal judges), executive orders

Foundational Documents:

The Constitution of the United States

2.6 Expansion of Presidential Power

Big Idea and Learning Objective: Constitutionalism (CON-4C)

Key Terms:

Twenty-second amendment, formal powers, informal powers

Foundational Documents:

Federalist No. 70

2.7 Presidential Communication

Big Idea and Learning Objective: Constitutionalism (CON-4D

Key Terms:

state of the union, bully pulpit

2.8 The Judicial Branch

Big Idea and Learning Objective: Constitutionalism (CON-5A)