Legislative Process
A proposed law is called this.
What is a bill?
This person is the head of the Executive Branch.
Who is the President?
A request for a higher court to review a lower court's decision is called this.
What is an appeal?
This person is the chief executive of Virginia.
Who is the Governor?
The study of how people make choices about limited resources.
What is economics?
This veto allows a governor to reject specific parts of a spending bill without rejecting the entire bill.
What is the line-item veto?
A bill that has passed both houses of Congress is sent to this person.
Who is the President?
The President's advisors and department heads make up this group.
What is the Cabinet?
This type of court reviews decisions made by lower courts.
What is Appellate Court?
Virginia's legislature is known by this name.
What is the Virginia General Assembly?
Because wants are unlimited but resources are limited, every person, business, and government faces this economic problem.
What is scarcity?
A case begins in this type of court before it can be appealed.
What is a trial court?
Most bills are first reviewed and revised in these groups before reaching the House or Senate floor.
What are committees?
The President serves as this military role.
Who is the Commander-in-Chief?
This Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This level of government is responsible for operating public schools, libraries, and local police departments.
What is local government?
This economic system is based on private ownership and voluntary exchange.
What is a market economy?
A student chooses to spend three hours playing video games instead of studying for tomorrow's Civics test. The value of the studying time given up is known as this.
What is opportunity cost?
Congress can still make a bill law after a presidential veto by achieving this vote in both houses.
What is the two-thirds vote?
The President appoints federal judges, but these lawmakers must approve them.
Who are the Senators?
The authority of a court to hear a case for the first time is called this.
What is original jurisdiction?
Virginia's General Assembly is divided into these two chambers.
What is the House of Delegates and the Virginia Senate?
The Federal Reserve often raises interest rates to help control this economic problem.
What is inflation?
This principle is demonstrated when Congress overrides a presidential veto.
What are checks and balances?
A bill has passed the House and Senate, but the versions are different. Before the President can act on it, Congress must first do this.
What is resolve the difference between the two?
A President cannot use this power for state crimes, only crimes against the United States.
What is a pardon?
A defendant loses a case in a trial court and asks a higher court to review the decision. The higher court is exercising this type of jurisdiction.
What is appellate jurisdiction?
Unlike cities that may have a city council, Virginia counties are governed by this elected body.
What is the Board of Supervisors?
This is the price at which the quantity supplied equals the quantity demanded in a market.
What is the equilibrium price?
A citizen challenges a law in court because it violates the Constitution. The Supreme Court agrees and strikes the law down. Which constitutional principle allows the Court to do this?
What is judicial review?