<p>I’m pretty sure they mean how to prevent it so the person with more than half the votes wins. Or a bill or whatever.</p>
<p>Basically, they were referring to the Connecticut Compromise in which the New Jersey Plan and Virginia Plan were compromised to create a bicameral legislature.</p>
<p>I had no idea what exactly they were referring to. Fed 10 is about factions, so I talked about freedom of assembly and the first amendment. I brought up elections as well, and threw in the checks and balances for good measure. Good?</p>
<p>This test was so freaking hard. The chart with the linear progression of nightly news viewing habits over age group that asked you to interpret how age correlated with nightly news viewing habits? I HAD NO CLUE! Or how about half of FRQ 2 being about linkage institutions and all of FRQ 4 being about a linkage institution? HOW DID THEY MANAGE TO FIND SUCH OBSCURE, DIVERSE TOPICS?!</p>
<p>(Oh yeah, to the guy that asked about checks on majority rule, the two answers I put were the electoral college and Senate representation being based on state regardless of population.)</p>
<p>fillabuster and house ways and means committee/rules committee are the two tools that i used for FRQ numero 3</p>
<p>[AP:</a> U.S. Government & Politics](<a href=“AP United States Government & Politics Exam – AP Students”>AP United States Government & Politics Exam – AP Students)</p>
<p>The Government FRQs are up. Take a look :D</p>
<p>iis saying legislative branch okay too? for the one that connects to the people? (1a)</p>
<p>yes thats right helloall.</p>
<p>and it would be wrong if you added the SEnate? I think I mentioned both the House of Rep + SEnate… since they were both in the Legis. branch</p>
<p>Both are correct calm down.</p>
<p>They’ll be lenient with such vague questions</p>
<p>3(a) Describe two advantages the majority party in the United States House of Representatives has in lawmaking,
above and beyond the numerical advantage that that majority party enjoys in floor voting.</p>
<p>What did you guys put for this?</p>
<p>Speaker of the house, committee proportions, especially rules which determines debate status</p>
<p>can anyone tell me how the rules committee members are assigned?</p>
<p>I put that:
1)The Speaker of the House is always a member of the majority party. He or she influences legislation because they are arguably the most powerful member of congress, and has the power to decide relevancy of issues. This means that he or she can favor possible legislation favoring the ideology of their party…something along those lines lol and
2) The majority party always heads committees located in the house, the committe heads can manipulate legislation so that it favors his or her parties’ views.
I hope these are right but it’s pretty much what I wrotelol</p>
<p>also for 3(c) I wrote that the primary reason is because the prseident is one person and congrses is a body of people, so the medias has an easier time gaining access to one person rather than a mass of people…something like that. is that right lol</p>
<p>I said the 2:1 ratio generally enjoyed by majority party in committees… and then I said something about overriding vetoes (although that probably falls under floor voting). I was kinda stretching, but I think I did well enough on the MC</p>
<p>Yeah, I put down overriding veto’s and something about committee’s</p>
<p>Committees & leverage of the speaker, I’m pretty sure. Or maybe it was gets to control the rules of floor debate, shafting the minority.</p>
<p>And I don’t think the Senate would work for 1a, just because they weren’t directly elected “originally”, but saying the legislative branch would probably be okay.</p>
<p>I sure hope so.</p>