Unit 1 Constitutional foundations
What is article V (5)?
What is congressional (or legislative) oversight?
The president can do this if Congress is unlikely to take action on something related to the president's policy agenda.
What is a dissenting opinion?
What is Federalist 78?
This highlighted the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
When an elected representative makes decisions based on polling data, that representative is illustrating this model of decision making.
What is the delegate model?
This law requires that some of the executive branch be hired based on merit rather than patronage.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
When the courts strike down a law, this is referred to as...
This argument is made in Federalist 70.
This constitutional principle is achieved through separation of powers and checks and balances.
What is limited government?
When a member of Congress gets federal money that helps the constituents of their state, this is referred to as...
What is pork barrel legislation?
This annual event gives presidents the chance to use the bully pulpit to influence congress and the public to adopt their agenda.
What is the State of the Union Address?
What is an originalist?
The court ruled that uneven distribution of representatives was unconstitutional (one person, one vote) in this case.
What is Baker v. Carr?
This type of grant gives state the most choice about how to spend federal money.
What is a block grant?
Debate is unlimited in the Senate, but can be ended with this.
What is a cloture vote?
This is the most significant check that the president has over the judicial branch.
The president appoints federal judges.
This is the most common reason that the Supreme Court grants cert.
What is a split decision in the lower courts?
This case expanded the power of economic power of Congress using the "necessary and proper" clause.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
This term describes when the federal government and states work together to accomplish a goal.
What is cooperative federalism?
Appropriations represent this power of congress.
The power of the purse; the power to control government spending.
Some argue that bureaucratic rule-making authority violates this constitutional principle?
What is separation of power?
It can't enforce it's decisions; it must depend on the executive branch to do so.
This case restricted Congress's power to regulate interstate commerce to only those things strictly related to commerce.
What is U.S. v. Lopez?