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100

The method that both major parties use to finally select a candidate after all primaries and caucuses are done.

What is a National Convention?

100

The legislative branch has the role of doing this.

What is creating laws and policies?

100
The term length for a president.
What is 4 years?
100
How federal judges are selected.
What is appointment by the President and approval by the Senate?
100

The constituency of the President.

What is the Electoral College or indirectly the people?

200
The acronym PAC stands for this.
What is Political Action Committee?
200
The age which one must be to be a representative.
What is 25 years old?
200
The last step in a bill becoming a law.
What is the President signing a bill into law?
200
Term lengths for federal judges.
What is life?
200
The electoral college puts more of an emphasis on these types of states making them more likely to be campaigned in.
What are large states?
300
A group of like-minded people that debate the best candidate to nominate and select through a public vote.
What is a caucus?
300
The vote required to override a presidential veto.
What is a 2/3 vote?
300
The role of the President's cabinet.
What is advise him and head up executive departments?
300
This defines the court's authority to hear cases.
What is jurisdiction?
300
The first four successors to the President in the event of a necessity for Presidential Succession.
What is the Vice President, the Speaker of the House, the President Pro-tempore of the Senate, and the Secretary of State?
400

A positive aspect of interest groups.

What is helping to stimulate interest in public affairs?

400

The length for which an individual must be a citizen before being eligible to run for a seat in the senate.

What is 9 years?

400

The war power that the President has.

What is the power as commander in chief of the armed forces. He can send troops into action but ultimately get congressional support before entering war.

400

The view that justices should play a vigorous role in creating policy from the bench.

What is judicial activism?

400

The vote needed to remove a President from office after being impeached.

What is a 2/3 vote in the Senate?

500

These are the individuals that go to the National Convention and vote for the candidate that their state selected.

Who are delegates?

500

Congress can be described by this word meaning, two houses.

What is bicameral?

500

Something that a President can sign that carries the same weight as law.

What is an executive order?

500

Includes the federal court system established by Congress

What is the judicial branch?

500

The branch that is checked by the Presidential appointment of Supreme Court Justices.

What is the judicial branch?

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