Explain the following Legislature of U.S. Flashcards

Pols test 4

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Ch. 9
Legislature
Functions of legislature
Representation, making laws, constituent service, bringing gov funds to the district
Specialists in gov decision making, when society gets too large and problems become too complex for all to directly participate in making decisions
Representatives
Founding fathers called representative gov ______ gov
Republican
Represenatives must have information from _____ before making laws
Leg staff, beuarocrats, interest groups, citizen volunteers, public hearings
Laws are symbolic when
Leg authorizes change/ new program without funding, leg prohibits certain behavior but provides for no enforcement
Legislators provide ____ ____ when they help individuals and groups from their districts
Constituent service
State legislators have staffs to
Respond to communications, coordinate meetings, arrange tours, welcome visitors, congratulate district residents on achivements, retirements, wedding anniversaries
Constituent services ______ prospects in future elections
Enhances
Legislator who brings more government funds to district more like to _________
Be re-elected
Members of congress usually _______, state legislators do not _______
Take credit for things that boost district, do not take credit
Legislators are chosen from districts defined _______
Geographically
Districts defined geographically becuase of _____ and voting required _____
Illiteracy, physically gathering
Each state has __ senators
2
Seats in the house of representatives apportioned amond states by _____
Population