Legislative
This word with latin roots refers to the federal governments divided legislature, split into the House of Representatives and the Senate.
What is bicameral?
This body of representatives is chosen fresh every four years to cast the 538 "real" votes for president.
What is the Electoral College?
In Marbury v Madison, Chief Justice Marshall establishes this as the unique power and responsibility of the Supreme Court
What is Judicial Review?
Employees of the bureaucracy are known as this, hired for their expertise rather than for their political leanings.
What is a Civil Servant?
This is the Free Response Essay Question on the Unit 2 Exam.
The total number of Representatives in the House, unchanged since 1929.
What is 435?
In Federalist 70, the four ingredients Hamilton identifies that provide for an energetic executive.
What is Unity, Duration in Office, Provision for Support, and Competent Powers?
The two types of court cases. One where you're charged by the state, the other where you are accused by an individual or group of liability.
What are criminal and civil cases?
As the federal government has grown in size, so has the influence of the president, thanks to this power that allows him to issue a command or instruction to a department or agency in the bureaucracy.
What is an executive order?
Thomas Jefferson served in this powerful cabinet position under George Washington, in charge of the department that handles foreign affairs.
What is the Secretary of State?
Before a bill is debated on the full House or Senate floor, it must first be passed through this smaller group of congresspeople.
What is a Congressional Committee?
This clause gives the president their executive power, and was arguably left intentionally vague.
What is the Vesting Clause?
These are the three levels of the federal judiciary.
What are the District, Appellate, and Supreme Courts?
While civil servants should be hired on their merit and expertise, sometimes they are hired for personal or political reasons, showing an example of this.
What is the spoils system or political patronage?
In Federalist #78, though he never names them directly, Hamilton warns his readers of this type of person; one who uses their charisma and intellect to manipulate public opinion, usually for nefarious purposes.
What is a Demagogue?
This type of Congressional Committee exists only for a temporary amount of time, to serve a specific purpose.
What is a Select Committee?
This clause in Article II requires that the President carries out the laws passed by Congress, faithfully of course.
What is the Take Care Clause?
In Federalist #78, Hamilton explains that this feature, unique to the judiciary, is in place to make them more independent.
What are lifetime appointments?
Unlike Executive Departments, this type of bureaucratic organization has much more autonomy. They are able to make most decisions without presidential approval, and their leaders cannot be removed by the president.
What is an Independent Agency or Government Corporation?
The only two states who do not use "winner take all" for their electoral college votes. Instead, they award them based on congressional district results.
What are Maine and Nebraska?
Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed a budget, funding the government through the end of January. While it still needs to be voted on by the Senate and passed by the president, the House is hopeful that this bill will prevent this from happening on Friday.
What is a government shutdown?
This is one of the two presidential elections where no candidate received a majority of the electoral college votes, allowing the House of Representatives to choose the next president.
What is the Election of 1800 (Jefferson) or the Election of 1824 (John Quincy Adams)
The United States operates under this kind of legal system, introduced by the British, where defendants are innocent until proven guilty, and judges use past precedent and discretion when ruling on a case.
What is Common Law?
The newest cabinet level department was made as an offshoot of the Department of Defense in 2002, in response to the September 11th terrorist attacks.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
At least Five of the Nine current Supreme Court Justices.
Who are Thomas, Alito, Comey-Barret, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Roberts, Kagan, Sotomayor, & Jackson-Brown?