Congress
This term refers to cooperation between the two major political parties.
What is bipartisanship?
This is the term used to refer to the president's ability to influence events simply by speaking about them due to the massive audience commanded by their office.
What is the bully pulpit?
This bicameral legislature is empowered to overrule the bureaucracy by writing laws directing them to do things differently.
What is Congress?
This is the process of determining whether a law is constitutional or not.
What is judicial review?
"All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives."
What is Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution?
This person is the most powerful member of the House of Representatives.
Who is the Speaker?
This is the first step in the process of someone becoming a Supreme Court justice or a cabinet secretary.
What is a presidential appointment?
This strong, three-way relationship between a special interest group, a bureaucratic agency, and Congress, should ideally benefit all three entities involved.
What is an iron triangle?
This Supreme Court case established the role of the Supreme Court in determining whether laws are constitutional or not.
What is Marbury vs. Madison?
"In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President."
What is the 25th Amendment?
This method of delaying a vote, often indefinitely/permanently, can only be overcome if sixty senators vote to end it.
What is a filibuster?
This is a way for the president to unilaterally direct the executive branch to carry out a particular policy.
What is an executive order?
This is the process through which the legislature makes sure that the bureaucracy is carrying out their functions appropriately.
What is Congressional oversight?
In English, this translates to "friend of the court" and means a document submitted to a court from someone who can offer additional information or a relevant perspective on the case.
What is an amicus curiae brief?
"The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish."
What is Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution?
Most bills die at this stage of the lawmaking process.
What is in committee?
In Federalist 70, Hamilton argued for this type of executive because of the need for accountability.
What is a unitary executive?
This process of turning laws into the more detailed requirements for carrying those laws out is one of the main functions of the bureaucracy.
What is rule making?
This is the principle that existing judicial decisions should usually be allowed to stand.
What is stare decisis?
"The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America."
What is Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution?
When elected officials share demographic characteristics with their constituents, that representation is said to be this type of representation.
What is descriptive representation?
If the president does not sign a bill within ten days of its passage and Congress goes out of session within that time period, the president is said to have exercised this power.
What is a pocket veto?
This term describes the bureaucratic ability to decide how to carry out laws.
What is discretionary authority?
In this document, Alexander Hamilton expressed the idea that the judicial branch was the least dangerous branch of the federal government.
What is Federalist 78?
"The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote."
What is the 17th Amendment?