Legislative branch
Presidency
Judicial Branch
Bureaucracy
EASY
100
List 3 powers that are distinct for the House of Representatives
Start revenue bills
Elect president in case of a tie
Impeach federal officials
100
Name the power:
The president sends a bill back to Congress because he doesn't like it.
What is a veto
100
According to Federalist 78, why is life tenure needed?
According to Federalist 78 a life tenure is needed to insulate judges from political pressures.
100
Define bureaucracy.
The bureaucracy is a bunch of executive departments and agencies that help the president carry out his duties and run the country and enforce its laws.
100
How does Congress ensure that bureaucrats implement the law in the way Congress intended?
Congress ensures that bureaucrats implement the law in the way Congress intended by confirming heads to bureaucratic agencies that interpret the law the way they do and by holding oversight hearings in which they make sure that the bureaucracy is using the law how they want.
200
List 3 of the Senates powers
Confirm judges and justices
Ratify treaties
Confirm cabinet members
hold impeachment trial/ remove officials
200
If the president wants to manage what the buerocracy is doing and have it do what he wants with the authority of a law he can issue one of these.
What is an Executive order?
200
What are the legislative branches check on the judicial branch?
Pass consituional amendments, challenge the ruling with new laws.
200
Define bureaucratic discretion.
Bureaucratic discretion is when bureaucrats make and enforce rules based on the laws that are given to them. They interpret the law how they see fit and then implement it.
200
What is gerrymandering?How does gerrymandering impact elections?
Gerrymandering is when a state's districts are redrawn to guarantee that a certain political party wins that state because the voters there are overwhelmingly part of a one party or the base of one party is split up so it does not have the ability to win the majority of that state's representatives.
300
What is required to overturn a presidential veto?
2/3s majority vote in both houses
300
What is a Pocket Veto?
The president lets the legislative session run out and does not sign a bill.
300
Define judicial activism.
Judicial activism is when the supreme court reinterprets the constitution to promote social change and overturn a previous precedent or understanding.
300
Describe why Congress defers to bureaucrats to make rules and regulations regarding policy.
Congress defers to bureaucrats because it is hard for congress to pass specific laws because congress people are not experts on everything and bureaucrats are experts in their agency.
300
According to this, why was judicial review necessary?
Federalist 78, Judicial review was a necessary part of the court's power so that it could act as a check on the other two branches and prevent them from getting too powerful.
400
What is cloture?
this motion kills filibusters and ends debates in the senate. It must be signed by 16 senators and can be presented at any time no one else is speaking.
400
What checks does the preident have on the other branches?
Appoint juges/ justices, veto laws from congress.
400
What case was juduicial review and what case esstablished it?
Marbury V Madison (1803), make sure laws are constitutional.
400
Define an iron triangle. Give an example of how it implements law.
An iron triangle is a connection between a congressional committee of interest and the bureaucracy that works to shape policy. An example of this is the Sierra Club, the EPA and the senate environment and public works committee.
400
What are Mitch McConnel's powers?
The minority leader: develops the minority position; negotiates with the majority party; directs minority caucus activities on the floor; directs floor activity for the minority party; leads floor debate for the minority party. Leadership is a key ingredient to a successful Legislature.
500
Define: Speaker of the House
The head of the house of representatives, he or she is responsible for deciding the house's agenda.
The speaker can kill a bill by sending it to a hostel committee. The speaker also has great influence on the majority party, which can be used to pass bills
500
A gremlin army appears and starts atacking the US.
What can the president do?
Use the powers of commander and chief to command the army and defend the homeland.
500
Pick a requited case and give a case brief about it.
Dont get it wrong. :)
500
Define oversight.
Oversight is when congress makes sure that the other branches are not breaking the law and acting corruptly and that they are interpreting the laws in the way that they want them to be interpreted.
500
Who is she and what are her powers?
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the house
The head of the house of representatives, he or she is responsible for deciding the house's agenda.
The speaker can kill a bill by sending it to a hostel committee. The speaker also has great influence in the majority party, which can be used to pass bills