Legislative
Clause that granted Congress powers not directly stated in the Constitution, but are required to fulfill obligations.
What is elastic clause?
OR
What is necessary and proper clause?
Ability for the president to reject congressional bills.
What is the veto?
Group of people collaborating to create specific policy on one issue.
What is issue network?
What is precedent?
Power of Congress if disapproving of a president's veto.
Supreme Court case restricting Congress' power to regulate commerce in a landmark case of gun regulation.
What is United States v. Lopez?
Media attention providing a stage for President to pitch ideas to American people.
What is bully pulpit?
Merit-based jobs that requires some type of exam or competitive hiring process.
What is competitive service?
Three tiers of federal court system from lowest to highest.
Cooperation between congressional committee, interest group, and an agency.
What is an iron triangle?
A power specific to the House of Representatives.
What is introducing a revenue (tax) bill?
OR
What is selecting a President if no candidate wins the Electoral College?
OR
What is leveling the impeachment of a federal officer?
Presidential directive that empowers the president to carry out law or administer government.
What is executive order?
Hybrid of government agency and private company.
What is government corporation?
Losing party in a trail can appeal in appellate courts based on this concept.
What is certiorari?
Conducted by Congress through its committees to ensure that executive branch agencies are carrying out program as defined.
What is congressional oversight.
Type of committee that are formed periodically for some particular and typically short-lived purpose.
What is select committee?
Treaty that does not require the Senate's approval.
Congress' exercise of their responsibility of overseeing agencies.
What are committee hearings?
The court case that established the right of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The appointment of several hundred civilians and military leaders in the government by the president at a time.
What is en bloc appointment?
The third person in line of succession in the case of presidential vacancy.
What is the President Pro Tempore of the Senate?
Act that resulted in the prohibition of a federal agency from threatening an employee for disclosing acts they believe to be illegal or dishonest.
What is the Whistleblower Protection Act in 1989?
When judges strike down laws and reverse public policy COMPARED TO when judges only declare laws unconstitutional when directly contradicting the Constitution rather than their interpretations.
What is judicial activism COMPARED to judicial restraint?
Determination of an appointee's political philosophy.
What is litmus test?