Legislative
What does the concept of “checks and balances” mean?
What is A “balance” of different powers, from within and without each department, that keeps themselves and the others in “check.”
What is the maximum number of terms a president can serve?
what is 2
The Supreme Court Justices are appointed for how long (length time)
What is For life
A person who exposes the government
What is a "whistleblower"
This Federalist paper discusses factions and their affects on government
What is Federalist #10
The 1969 Supreme Court case which determined that the suspension of students in an Iowa school for wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam War was unconstitutional.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
This word, referring to the legislative branch means that it contains two different houses.
What is bicameral
What is the minimum age requirement for the president?
What is 35
What is Appellate courts
What was the name of the executive order Trump issued in order to allow his friends into office?
What is Schedule f
According to Madison federalist 51 , in a republican society, the legislative authority necessarily predominates. True or False?
What is True.
The legislature represents the people, and congress is given the most enumerated rights.
The 1919 Supreme Court case which established that speech which evokes a "clear and present danger" is not permissible. This case also had to do with the encouragement of evasion of the draft during WWI.
What is Schneck v. United States?
How does the Legislative Branch check on the Judicial branch?
What is the "legislative branch has to approve any justices the president nominates to the Supreme Court"
What is Pass legislation to limit the courts power
What is "amend the constitution"
This releases a convicted person from having to fulfill a sentence
What is Pardons
Why was James Madison unconcerned about the influence of the executive or legislative branches on the judiciary branch?
What is judiciary is Independent or judges are appointed for life
What type of administrative system was used prior to the establishment of meritocracy in the federal bureaucracy?
What is spoils system
how do you limit the power of the legislature if it is, by its nature, more powerful than the executive or judiciary branch?
What is, It must be divided up. The House and the Senate. (bicameral)
Which constitutional clause was used to rule in Gideon v Wainwright?
What is due process
ability to tax and spend public money for the national government - role of the legislative branch is . . .
What is "power of the purse"
How does the Executive Branch check on the Legislative branch?
What is veto a law
What happens if the majority take over government?
What is, Anarchy or the rights of every class of citizen will be diminished.
In McCulloch v. Maryland, did the U.S. Supreme Court decide that individual states could tax banks chartered by the Federal government?
What is false
How does the Executive Branch check on the Judicial branch?
What is the executive branch nominates or selects the justices on the Supreme Court
This document advocates for a weak central government ad strong powers reserved fo the states
What is any Brutus paper"
The necessary and proper clause is also known as the elastic clause.
What is true