The House
The Bureaucracy
How a Bill Becomes a Law
The Presidency
The Courts
100
The only officer in the House of Representatives specifically mentioned in the Constitution
What is the Speaker of the House?
100
A system of employment based on qualifications, test scores, and ability, rather than party loyalty.
What is the merit system?
100
Special committee in the House that reviews bills after they come out of committee and before they go to the full chamber for consideration. Traffic cop function: decides when the bill will go the floor, how much time will be allotted for discussion, and specifies if and what amendments can be offered.
What is the House Rules Committee?
100
Limits the presidents in the deployment of troops overseas to a 60 day period in peacetime unless Congress explicitly gives its approval for a longer period.
What is the War Powers Act?
100
Term of office for a federal judge
What is life?
200
Party leader who keeps close contact will all members of his or her party, takes vote counts on key legislation, prepares summaries of bills, and acts as a communications link within a party.
What is the whip?
200
Reform measure that established the principle of federal employment on the basis of open, competitive exams and created the Civil Service Commission.
What is the Pendleton Act?
200
Committees to which bills are referred for consideration; permanent committees.
What is a standing committee?
200
Formal international agreements entered into by the president that do not require the advice and consent of the US Senate.
What is an executive agreement?
200
Judicial power established in Marbury v. Madison?
What is judicial review?
300
Minimum age for a member of the House.
What is 25?
300
Governmental units that closely resemble a Cabinet department but have narrower areas of responsibility, and perform services rather than regulatory functions.
What is an independent executive agency?
300
Special joint committees created to iron out the differences between house and senate versions of a bill.
What is a conference committee?
300
Presidents formal advisory group.
What is the cabinet?
300
The jurisdiction of the courts that hear a case first, usually in trial.
What is original jurisdiction?
400
Total membership in the house
What is 435?
400
Businesses established by Congress to perform functions that could be provided by private businesses.
What is a government corporation?
400
Petition that gives a majority of the House the authority to bring an issue to the floor in the face of committee inaction
What is a discharge petition?
400
Adopted in 1967 to establish procedures for filling vacancies in the office of president and vice president as well as for providing for procedures to deal with the disability of a president.
What is the 25th amendment?
400
Codes of behavior related to the conduct and relationships between individuals or groups.
What is civil law?
500
The minimum number of represenatives in Congress that any state can have
What is 3?
500
Laws that prohibits civil servants from taking activist roles in partisan campaigns.
What is the Hatch Act?
500
The formal, constitutional authority of the president to reject bills passed by both houses of Congress.
What is a veto?
500
Bringing formal charges against the presidents or other government officials
What is impeachment?
500
In court rulings, a reliance on past decisions or precedents to formulate decisions in new cases.
What is stare decisis?
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