Checks+Balances
The ability of federal judges to determine the constitutionality of legislation
What is judicial review?
Allows people to practice their own religion
What is the Free Exercise Clause?
Main power of the bureaucracy
Type of PAC that allows unlimited amounts of fundraises but prevents direct coordination with candidates
What is a Super PAC?
The Alabama city where Martin Luther King Jr wrote a famous letter while in jail
What is Birmingham?
The nickname for Congress' control over federal funding
What is "Power of the Purse"?
Gives the federal government Unenumerated Powers
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
What is the Merit System?
Supreme Court case that provides the media with heavy presumption against prior restraint
What is New York Times Co. v US?
The pen name used by Anti-Federalist Robert Yates
What is Brutus?
The proportion of members of the House and Senate required to override a presidential veto
What is two-thirds?
Clause central to Engel v Vitale
What is the Establishment Clause?
The semi-independent agency responsible for controlling interest rates
What is the Federal Reserve (Fed)?
Branch of federal government who recieve "Amicus Curiae" briefs from interest groups
What is the Judicial Branch?
The word used to describe executive power in Federalist 70
What is Energetic?
The House of Congress which holds impeachment trials
What is the Senate?
Clause central to US v Lopez
What is the Commerce Clause?
How bureaucrats were chosen in the past, gaining positions for political patronage
What is the Spoils System?
DAILY DOUBLE
The first two political parties in the United States
The Federalist Paper dealing with Checks and Balances
What is Federalist No. 51?
The branch of government with the authority to create lower courts
What is the Legislative/ Congress?
The clause that forms the basis of Selective Incorporation
What is the Due Process Clause?
Funds given by Congress to bureaucratic agencies
What are Appropriations?
A style of primary election where people group together in a public place to show support for their candidate
What is a Caucus?
The two branches of federal government not present in the Articles of Confederation
What are the Executive and Judicial Branches?