Use the chart on page 264 to compare the length of an elected term in the House of
Representatives to the terms in the other legislative bodies.
What does the difference you find suggest about the
American system of government?

the punishment for breaking the law would depend on the conditions or the seriousness of the law being broken, if he or she breaks the law while doing some great discovery or invention then it would classify as a scientific fraud. there are other words to describe the crime but scientific fraud would be the harshest one.

they usually pass federal laws

and sometimes in the elections of the president