Judicial Branch
This Supreme Court case established judicial review.
What is Marbury V. Madison?
The powers explicitly listed for Congress in Article 1 Section 8
What is enumerated powers?
The power delegated to the House of Representatives in the constitution to charge the president or any other official with treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
What is impeachment?
The legal principle of determining points in litigation according to precedent.
What is Stare Decisis?
The president of the Senate is also the...
What is the Vice President
A group selected by the states to elect the president and the vice-president, in which each state's number of electors is equal to the number of its senators and representatives in Congress.
What is the electoral college?
This is when the SCOTUS orders case records to be sent up for review.
What is the writ of Certiorari?
A congress committee where both members from the House and the Senate are involved is called a...
What is a Joint Committee
Passed in 1951, this amendment limits presidents to two terms of office.
What is the 22nd amendment?
This is a judicial philosophy holding that the courts can and should go beyond the applicable law to consider broader societal implications of its decisions.
What is judicial activism?
Who are the House members that control party discipline called?
What is the Whips.
The case in which the Court held that the President does not have executive privilege in immunity from subpoenas or other civil court actions.
What is U.S vs. Nixon?
Philosophy that SCOTUS (in some instances) should follow precedent in order to maintain the status quo (i.e. Korematsu vs. US).
What is judicial restraint?
What is the process called in the Senate where a speaker talks endlessly in order to kill a bill
What is a filibuster
This law was passed in 1973 spelling out the conditions under which the president can commit troops without congressional approval.
What is the War Powers Resolution?