Executive Branch
If a president disagrees with legislation passed by Congress, the president has the power to do this in order to block it from becoming law.
What is veto?
The Constitution states that all bills of this type must begin in the House of Representatives.
What are appropriations (revenue) bills?
This is the term length for Supreme Court justices.
What is life?
This protects many bureaucrats from partisan firings.
What is the civil service system?
The budgetary process is a joint effort between these two branches of government.
What are the legislative and executive?
This amendment limited the president to two terms in office.
What is the 22nd?
This is the purpose of a conference committee in Congress.
What is resolve differences in similarly passed bills?
This is the article of the Constitution that outlines the judicial branch.
What is Article III?
The FEC creating regulations for what are and are not acceptable campaign contributions is an example of this.
What is bureaucratic rulemaking?
This is a legislative check on the Supreme Court.
What is confirmation of justice nominations in the Senate?
What is the impeachment of a Supreme Court justice?
What is amending the Constitution?
In order to limit the military authority of the presidential without congressional approval, Congress passed this in 1973.
What is the War Powers Act?
This is a power of senators to block a vote on a bill they oppose.
What is a filibuster?
This is the most important job of the Supreme Court.
What is judicial review?
Although appointed by the president, the president does not have the authority to dismiss them without "just cause".
Who are commissioners of independent regulatory agencies?
This is an executive check on the Supreme Court.
What are presidential appointments of Supreme Court justices?
What is refusing to enforce a Supreme Court ruling?
Executive orders and executive agreements are both examples of this type of presidential power.
What are informal powers?
This government bodies redraw congressional districts every ten years.
What are state legislatures?
In order to hear a case from one of these courts, the Supreme Court must determine the cases involves a substantial federal question.
What are state courts?
Most federal hiring is done by this bureaucratic body.
What is the Office of Personnel Management?
If the Supreme Court issues a wildly unpopular ruling, this branch has the power to indefinitely delay its implementation.
What is the executive?
According to the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, this person is next in line to the presidency after the Vice President.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
The inclusion of appropriations for localized projects by members of Congress in larger spending bills is referred to as this.
What is pork barrel legislation?
On average, the Supreme Court chooses to hear about this many cases per year (out of about 8000 appeals).
What is 80?
The United States Postal Service and Amtrak are both examples of these types of bureaucratic entities?
What are governmental corporations?
This court case was supported by Federalist 78 and solidified the court's power of judicial review.
What is Marbury v Madison?