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At this time on May 6th you are expected to check in for the AP Gov test.
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This document structured the federal government to be one Congress with no power to tax, regulate commerce, or keep an army.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
What is the House of Representatives?
In this type of action the President receives a bill at the end of a Congressional session and chooses not to act on it, thereby letting it die.
What is a Pocket Veto?
In Marbury v Madison this power was given to the Supreme Court to review legislation.
What is Judicial Review?
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This served as a way to settle the debate between the New Jersey Plan, which favored small states, and the Virginia Plan, which favored larger states. Included a bicameral system.
What is the Great (or Connecticut) Compromise?
Also called the "elastic clause", this clause in Article 1 allows Congress to make laws it sees fit for the function of the government.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
Using this power the President may issue a law without the approval of Congress first. However, these acts are often restricted to the President's domain, meaning they define how the military and other departments operate.
What are Executive Orders?
The concept of Stare Decisis lets these previous decisions stand as an established legal principle for future courts to follow.
What are Precedents?
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These powers serve as overlapping powers held at both the federal and state level. Examples include levy and collect taxes, define crimes, and enforce laws.
What are concurrent powers?
Similar the the House's "discharge petition", which brings a bill out of a reluctant committee, this rule enables a super majority to end debate on a bill in the Senate, thereby ending a filibuster.
What is the Cloture Rule?
This is an example of the President being able to utilize the informal Power of Persuasion to influence the press and citizens. This term was made popular by Teddy Roosevelt.
What is Bully Pulpit?
In this Article of the Constitution we see the creation of the Supreme Court and the power given to Congress to create "inferior" courts.
What is Article III?
There is this amount of multiple choice questions on the AP Gov test.
What is 55?
These alliterative powers are held by the state to create and enforce laws on matters of health and safety. Often pertaining to law enforcement hence the name.
What are Police Powers?
This type of spending happens when riders are added onto bills to use federal dollars to fund local projects.
What is Pork-Barrel Spending?
This controversial and alliterative action that can be taken by the president when signing a bill into law allows the president to state their interpretation of a bill and how they expect it to be carried out.
What is a Signing Statement?
This term references the judge acting to create a law by striking down laws or reversing public policy, as opposed to judicial restraint which opposes "legislating from the bench".
What is Judicial Activism?
You will be given this amount of time for the free response portion of the AP Gov test.
What is one hour and forty minutes?
This alliterative system refers to the collection of federal tax revenues by Congress and then the distribution of said revenues to the states. Also known as revenue sharing.
What is Fiscal Federalism?
This representative model is a combination of both the delegate and trustee models. So a lawmaker might vote on behalf of their constituents on matters that generate strong public opinion, but on matters of little public concern, lawmakers might vote with what they believe to be correct.
What is the Politico Model?
This term is defined as when the President is allowed more power than the constitution allows.
What is Imperial Presidency?
This rule references the amount of Supreme Justices needed to agree in order to take on a case.
What is the Rule of Four?