YOU SHOULD BE PREPARED TO ANSWER MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS ON THE FINAL EXAM BASED ON THE FOLLOWING ITEMS. In addition there will be new questions from Chs. 18 and 20 of Challenge of Democracy and ch. 12 of Texas Politics Today.

Ch. 11 COD
1. The results of the Great Compromise.
2. Redistricting and reapportionment: Who does it? Why? What is it?
3. The number of members in the US House and US Senate.
4. The difference between how US Senators are selected now compared with the way it was done before 1913.
5. The paradox in the public’s regard for Congress and their Congress person.
6. The incumbency effect.
7. The process by which a bill becomes a law in Congress.
8. The role and importance of the committee system in the legislative process.
9. The importance of seniority and membership in the majority party to members of Congress.
10. The structure and operation of Congress in terms of majoritarianism and pluralism, that is, which of these two theories does Congress most closely fit?

Ch. 6 and 7 TPT
11. The formal organization of the Texas House and Senate and the powers of the presiding officers in each chamber.
12. The importance of the various influences on the legislative process in Texas.

Ch. 12 COD
3. The constitutional powers and duties of the president.
14. The other sources of power that presidents have used to expand the authority of the office.

Ch. 8 TPT
15. The principal executive, legislative, judicial, and informal powers of the Governor of Texas.
16. Limitations on the power of the governor of Texas.

Ch. 14 COD
17. The perception of the power of the federal judiciary in the early years of the republic.
18. The concept of judicial review and the basis of its establishment in Marbury v Madison.
19. Alexander Hamilton’s explanation of the role of the Court that we call "judicial review" in our constitutional system.
20. The basic organization of the federal court system.
21. The role and jurisdiction of the federal district courts and the federal appeals courts.
22. The process of getting a case to the Supreme Court.
23. Two ways judges exercise a policymaking role.
24. The process of appointing a Supreme Court justice.
25. The process of appointment to the federal district courts and courts of appeals.
26. The source of most Supreme Court cases.
27. The Supreme Court as an instrument of pluralist or majoritarian democracy.

Ch. 10 TPT
28. The organization of the Texas court system and jurisdiction of each type of court.
29. How judges get their positions in Texas.
30. The organization and functions of grand juries and trial juries under Texas law.