The Legislative Branch
The Senate has this many members.
What is 100 members?
The House of Representatives has this many members.
What is 435 members?
Marbury v Madison was the Supreme Court Case that established this precedent.
What is Judiciary Review?
This is a power granted to the President in the Constitution (name one).
What is maintain checks and balances, and limit power of any one person or part of the federal government?
This system, later replaced by the merit system, gave jobs to unqualified political supporters.
What is the Patronage System?
This is a tactic used by legislation in which Congress draws districts in bizarre shapes, usually to benefit the majority party.
What is Gerrymandering?
The House of representatives can perform this role (name one).
What is initiate all tax/revenue bills, impeachment, Rules Committee, Committee of the Whole, discharge a petition?
According to Federalist 78, life tenure is for federal judges is necessary for the insurance of this type of court system.
What is an independant judiciary?
Who are the members of the Executive Branch?
The President, The Vice President and The Cabinet.
This is an example of a bureaucratic agency (name one).
What is an independent regulatory commission, independent executive agency, cabinet department, or government corporation?
The Senate can perform this role (name one).
What is confirm nominations, ratify treaties, filibuster, unanimous consent agreements, or holds?
This type of spending must be approved annually as part of budget bills and makes up about 30% of federal spending.
What is Discretionary Spending?
The structures and foundations for the powers of the Judiciary Branch are found in this Article of the Constitution.
What is the 8th Article?
This type of Presidential communication allows him or her to bring attention to any issue due to the position and prominence of the president.
What is Bully Pit?
This policy in which Congress can alter agency/department budgets depending on whether they are pleased or not with the agency’s activities is used by Congress to ensure that legislation is implemented as intended.
What is the Power of the Purse?
This procedure must be invoked to end a filibuster.
What is a cloture?
This action of legislation has been ruled unconstitutional and is when legislators draw congressional districts of very unequal size.
What is Malapportionment?
This policy or action can be struck down by the Supreme Court using the power of judicial review.
What is Congressional laws, executive orders/actions, bureaucratic regulations, or state laws?
How many total years can a person be President of the United States? This would equal two terms.
8 years or 2 terms
This is a reason why the bureaucracy is sometimes criticized as being “unaccountable.”
What is the bureaucrats or unelected officials?
This is one effect of party polarization on legislation and confirmation.
What is policy gridlock, or more difficult/slower to pass legislation/confirm nominations?
In this case, Supreme Court ruled that Congressional districts cannot be drawn based only on race (or banned racial gerrymandering).
What is Shaw v Reno?
This is a check that Congress has on the Judicial Branch (name one).
What is can propose a constitutional amendment, can pass legislation, can change the Court’s jurisdiction, can change the number of Supreme Court Justices, or Senate confirmation of Justices?
This interpretation of presidential power determines that he or she should only have powers granted in the Constitution.
This is an administrative task performed by bureaucratic agencies (name one).
What is testifying before Congress during oversight hearings, establishing regulations that have the force of law, or issuing fines to punish violators?