leg vocab

Cards (8)

bicameral
2 different parts of congress called the houses of representatives
census 
the official population count
reapportionment  
the process of reassigning representation based on population
gerrymandering  
draws a district boundaries to gain an advantage in elections
incumbent  
elected officials who is already in office which could also be someone responsible for a specific oddice
consistent  
a person whom a memeber of congress has been elected president
expressed powers  
powers granted to the federal government of the US by the US constitution
implied powers  
power congress possesses that are not explicitly in the US