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100
Name methods of checking the power of the executive branch. 100 each.
What is the answer?
100
The name of a president.
What is William H. Taft?
100
Power of the supreme court to rule acts of the other two branches unconstitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
100
The feeling that your vote matters :)
What is political efficacy?
100
Balancing power between state and national government.
What is Federalism?
200
Strategy of drawing district lines to benefit one party.
What is Gerrymandering?
200
Ability of president to keep some information secret.
What is executive privilege?
200
Established the rule of separate, but equal.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
200
Groups that make campaign contributions to gain influence over legislators.
What are PACs or maybe Interest Groups too?
200
Explain the difference between free-exercise and establishment clause.
What is the answer?
300
The power to hold hearings to review the activity of executive agencies.
What is congressional oversight?
300
Chief executive officer of the Department of Justice.
What is the Attorney General?
300
Fancy Latin term for allowing precedent to guide decisions.
What is Stare decisis?
300
The reason for media coverage becoming more homogeneous.
What is the concentration of media in a few large corporations?
300
The Iron Triangle.
What is congressional committees, bureaucratic agencies, and interest groups.
400
Legislation designed to provide funds for local projects.
What is Pork Barrel Legislation?
400
The result of an election when no presidential candidate receives a majority of the electoral college vote.
What is the House chooses the president?
400
Gitlow v. New York dealt with this amendment.
What is the first amendment?
400
The Americans with Disabilities Act would be an example of what type of federal action.
What is a federal mandate?
400
Law which increased voter registration.
What is Motor Voter Laws?
500
The result of two conflicting bills from the House and Senate.
What is going to conference committee?
500
Name one of the groups considered part of the White House Staff.
What is council of economic advisors or security counsel? Maybe. The first is for sure.
500
Case which affirmed that the federal government has powers beyond those enumerated in the Constitution.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
500
Small group meeting to appoint nominations for president.
What is a caucus?
500
Philosopher who promoted separation of powers.
What is Montesquieu?
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