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