Super Easy
recognizes members for speaking and conference committees
Speaker of the House
A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
Filibuster
Legislator supports a proposal favored by another in return for support in his or hers
Logrolling
advice giving group that the president picks to help aid him with decisions
presidents cabinet
Rule by the people
Popular Sovereignty
A power given to the courts saying that they have the right to decide whether the actions of the legislative/executive branches and the national government are in line with the Constitution
Judicial Review
The principle of a two-house legislature.
Bicameralism
grants congress the authority to make laws essential for carrying out enumerated powers
necessary and proper clauses
Voting rights will not be based on race.
15th Amendment
A system in government where all three branches limit each other
Checks and Balances
A person whose views favor more government involvement in business, social welfare, minority rights, and wants more government spending
Liberal
The theory of government and politics emphasizing that many groups, each pressing for its preferred policies, competes and counterbalances one another in the political marketplace
Pluralism
A plan when creating Congress that called for equal representation regardless of differences in population between States
New Jersey Plan
relationship between a bureaucratic agency/ interest groups/ and congressional committees that work together to shape policy
iron triangle
Prohibits federal courts, state courts, or federal administrative agencies from hearing cases in which a private party names a state as a defendant or seeks monetary relief from a state officers in his/her official capacity unless the state gives its consent
11th Amendment
Views Constitution as giving a limited list of powers to the national government (mostly foreign policy and national defense) and leaving the rest to the sovereign states. Each level is dominant within its own sphere. The Supreme Court serves as the umpire between the national government and the states in disputes over which level of government has responsibility for a particular activity.
Dual Federalism
"One man, one vote." Ordered state legislative districts to be as near equal as possible in population
Baker v. Carr
What oversight responsibility does the Executive branch have?
overseas federal bureaucracy
Feared danger of faction, group of self-interested individuals who use the government to get what they want, trampling the rights of others in the process
Federalist No.10
Who was the president in 1785?
No one lol
Congress appropriates funds for a specific purpose, such as school lunches or for building airports and highways. These funds are allocated by formula and are subject to detailed federal conditions, often on a matching basis; the local government receiving the federal funds must put up some of its own money. Additionally they provide federal supervision to ensure that the federal dollars are spent as Congress wants.
Categorical Grants
Appropriate checks and balances can be created in government, and also advocate a separation of powers within the national government.
Federalist No. 51
States have equal representation in one house of the legislature (Senate) and representation based on population in the other house (House of Representatives)
Great Compromise
focused on the superiority of a large republic in controlling the "mischiefs of faction," delegating authority to elected representatives and dispersing power between the states and national government.
Federalist No. 10
Groups of people that are like-minded or connected by some common impulse of passion or interest, that may begin to dominate government for their own ends
factions