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1|Page GA GOV EXAM GCSU | BRAND NEW EXAM QUESTIONS & VERIFIED ANSWERS 2025 What kind of activities do legislators engage in as part of their overall responsibility to "represent and serve" their constituents? - correct-answermaking speeches at various clubs and gatherings, contacting state agencies to resolve problems or claims that constituents may have, providing information and interviews to the news media and to interest groups, answering letters and phone calls from citizens complainin Why do most state legislators have other full-time jobs? - correct-answer-because it's not a year round job; and salary is very low Why did the Georgia Senate change from having their legislative districts represent counties? What are senate district lines based on now? - correctanswer-until the 1960s, many state legislatures were based on the logic that the upper chambers representing counties and their lower chambers representing people. The U.S. supreme court eventually declared such arrangements on the state level to be unconstitutional. The basis of representation in both chambers is population. within each chamber, all districts must have equal populations or "one man, one vote." accordingly, after each census, the district lines have to be redrawn in order to reflect population growth and decline.