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Government Final Study Guide
Congress – Terms, Qualifications, etc…
1) House of Representatives
a. two year term
b. twenty-five years old or older
c. must have been a citizen for seven years
d. must be a resident of the state in which he is running for also in the same district that he is running for as well
2) Senate
a. six year term
b. thirty years old or older
c. must have been a citizen for nine years
d. must be a resident of the state he/she represents

House and senate: bicameral – unicameral, or one-house, legislatures under the Continental Congresses and the Articles of Confederation had not worked well, several of the Framers believed that a two-house law-making body was essential to the system of checks and balances they were building into the new government, and the dispute over representation between the large and small states was solved by the Connecticut Compromise.

Expressed Powers – the powers granted to...