Judiciary
Which of the three has the power to ignore rulings of the Supreme Court? (1) Congress, (2) the president, (3) the states.
What is "none of the above?" Supreme Court rulings are the law of the land and cannot be ignored by any level of government.
This is the Senate's role in impeachment.
What is "convicting and removing an official from office?"
Congressman Morales votes against raising taxes because his constituents oppose such a tax hike. His constituents have no opinion an a tort reform bill, so he votes with his conscience on that bill.
This is which model of representative democracy.
What is the politico model?
This is how many sides a triangle has.
What is "three?"
This is the president checking the legislative branch by refusing to sign a bill into law.
What is the veto power?
This is who implements/enforces Supreme Court rulings.
What is "the executive branch?"
This is the House of Representatives' Role in Impeachment.
What is "voting to recommend Articles of Impeachment?"
Congresswoman DeLaRos votes against going to war with Russia even though her constituents favor war because DeLaRosa is a pacifist.
This is which model of representative democracy.
What is the trustee model?
These are the three sides of the Iron Triangle.
What is an interest group/pac, federal agency/bureaucracy, and congress/congressional committee?
This is the president's power to choose who's on the Supreme Court or leads bureaucratic agencies.
What is the "appointment power?"
This is Article of the Constitution that gives the Supreme Court their power
What is Article III? (3)
This is Congress calling Mr. Morales (the Secretary of Education) before a Congressional committee to ask them questions about failures of their agency.
What is "oversight" or "oversight hearing?"
Congresswoman DeLaRos votes against going to war with Russia because her constituents oppose war.
This is which model of representative democracy.
What is the delegate model?
This is the goal of the iron triangle
This is why the president plays such a large role in getting the Supreme Court to reverse precedence.
What is "the president has the power to appoint new justices to the supreme court who will rule differently on cases than previous justices?"
This is where the lower courts (US Court of Appeals and US District courts) get their power.
What is Congress?
This is one check the judicial branch has on the (1) Executive branch and on the (2) Legislative branch.
(1) Declare executive orders/bureaucratic rules unconstitutional
(2) Declare laws of Congress unconstitutional
What is the inability of Congress to pass laws and otherwise accomplish any of their enumerated/implied powers.
Lobbyists from Legalize Marijuana Now, work with members of the House Committee on Drugs, and officials from the Food and Drug Administration to discuss the possible implications of legalizing marijuana.
These are the three sides of the iron triangle in this example.
Legalize marijuana now: interest group/PAC
House Committee on Drugs: Congressional Committee
Food and Drug Administration: bureaucracy
The president wants to use the bully pulpit to gain support for a new law legalizing sports betting. What would this look like?
The president gives a speech on tv promoting the law. The people who saw the speech now support the law and put pressure on their member of Congress to approve the law.
These are two reasons why Supreme Court appointees are so crucial/important/controversial.
What is "(1) Supreme Court justices have lifetime tenure, (2) new Supreme Court justices have the potential to reverse precedent, (3) Supreme Court justices are increasingly polarized ideologically?"
The President wishes to go to war with Canada under their power as Commander in Chief.
Identify the two powers of Congress that could limit the president's foreign policy plan.
(1) Congress has power of the purse, meaning they can refuse to fund the president's war.
(2) Congress has the sole power to declare war, so the President would not be able to officially declare war on Canada.
(3) Senate Has Confirmation Power over presidential appointees, so they could refuse to confirm key military leaders within the president's cabinet.
These are three causes of gridlock.
What are divided government, bicameralism, gerrymandering, partisanship, checks and balances, and ideological news sources?
Within the iron triangle, what does the interest group provide to the Congressional Committee and to the bureaucracy? What does the interest group get in return?
Interest Group provides Congressional Committee with campaign contributions and information.
Interest Group provides Bureaucracy with expertise and information to help them write the rules.
Interest group gets positive legislation from the Congressional Committee and positive rules from the Bureaucracy
(1) An executive order is the president telling a bureaucratic agency how to implement a law
(2) Executive orders do not require congressional approval while laws must be passed by the House and the Senate before they can be signed by the president.