Congress
This chamber has 435 members and is based on population.
What is the House of Representatives?
This role involves negotiating treaties and meeting with foreign leaders.
What is Chief Diplomat?
This type of jurisdiction applies when the Supreme Court reviews lower court decisions.
What is appellate jurisdiction?
These are the largest units of the bureaucracy led by cabinet members.
What are executive departments?
This constitutional principle ensures that each branch can limit the powers of the others.
What is Checks and Balances?
This congressional power allows congress to override a presidential veto. - What is required to override a presidential veto?
What is a 2/3 majority vote?
This presidential power allows rejecting a bill passed by Congress.
What is a veto?
This concept explains why courts rely on previous rulings to ensure consistency in law.
What is stare decisis?
This type of agency operates like a business.
What is a government corporation?
This situation often leads to policy gridlock due to competing party agendas.
What is Divided Government?
This process allows Congress to remove a president from office.
What is impeachment?
This type of agreement does NOT require Senate approval.
What is an executive agreement?
This theory of judicial interpretation emphasizes deference to elected branches.
What is judicial restraint?
This triangle connects Congress, agencies, and interest groups.
What is an iron triangle?
This power allows the Senate to block or delay presidential judicial nominations.
What is confirmation power?
This clause gives Congress implied powers beyond those explicitly listed.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
This informal power features the president using his or her public presence and comments to influence and shape public policy and public opinion.
What is Bully Pulpit?
This type of jurisdiction allows a case to be heard for the first time.
What is original jurisdiction?
This type of agency regulates industries and often has quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial powers.
What are independent regulatory commissions?
This legislative power allows Congress to control agencies through funding.
What is the Power of the Purse?
This case ruled that racial gerrymandering violates the Equal Protection Clause.
What is Shaw v. Reno?
This limitation occurs when the Supreme Court rules that a president's actions exceed constitutional authority.
What is Judicial Review?
In this case, the Court ruled that students do not lose their First Amendment rights at school, as long as their actions do NOT substantially disrupt learning.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
This explains how Congress limits bureaucratic power through hearings, investigations, and budget control.
What is Congressional Oversight?
This concept refers to the public's belief that the Supreme Court's decisions should be accepted and followed, even though the court lacks direct enforcement power or electoral accountability.
What is the legitimacy of the Judiciary?