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Executive Excess
Excellent Executive
Waring States
Saucy States
100
This amendment prohibits the states from discriminating in voting rights.
What is the 15th Amendment?
100
Congress can delegate the appointment of "inferior officers" to these three.
What are (1) the judiciary, (2) the president, or (3) heads of departments?
100
This prevails where Congress validly exercises one of its powers and overrides the President.
What is Congress?
100
Two of the President's powers under commander-in-chief.
What are (1) to deploy military forces without a formal declaration of war in response to an attack upon the US, and (2) to seize private property during wartime unless Congress says otherwise.
100
The United States Supreme Court has this type of jurisdiction over suits between the federal government and a state.
What is original, but not exclusive, jurisdiction?
200
This is required to validly enforce the 14th and 15th Amendments.
What are (1) state government have engaged in widespread violations of the amendment; and (2) the legislative remedy is "congruent and proportional to" the violations?
200
This person may remove any executive appointee without cause.
Who is the President?
200
The huge exception to the general rule that the executive branch may not make law.
What is that Congress can enact legislation that delegates rule making power to an executive or administrative agency in some designated subject area.
200
This is required for treaties to become law.
What is consent of 2/3 of the senate?
200
The US Supreme Court has this type of jurisdiction over suits between states.
What is original and exclusive jurisdiction?
300
This person can and this body cannot appoint members to any agency or commission with administrative powers.
What is the President and Congress?
300
The president must have cause to remove these types of executive officers.
What are (1) executive officers with fixed terms, or (2) officers performing judicial or quasi-judicial functions?
300
The President has an absolute privilege to refuse to disclose information relating to this.
What are military, diplomatic, or sensitive national security secrets?
300
A treaty that takes effect without the necessity of any further action by Congress beyond consent or ratification.
What is a self-executing treaty?
300
Situations where a state may be sued by a private citizen in federal court.
What are (1) the state consents to the suit, and (2) the state officer may be sued for injunctive relief on the theory that his allegedly unlawful conduct was beyond the scope of his authority?
400
This person has exclusive power to nominate high-level officials such as cabinet members, ambassadors, and heads of agencies.
Who is the President?
400
This body cannot summarily remove an executive officer?
What is Congress?
400
Other confidential communications between the president and his advisors are this.
What is presumptively privileged?
400
States enjoy immunity from federal taxation if the tax falls into one of these two categories.
What is the tax is (1) unique to state activities, or (2) essential government functions?
500
This body has the power to confirm or reject the president's nominees for high level appointments.
What is the Senate?
500
Federal judges cannot be removed by Congress or the President under this condition. They can only be removed via formal impeachment proceedings.
What is "good behavior"?
500
This overcomes the presumptive privilege.
What is when the confidential communications are subpoenaed as evidence in a criminal trial?
500
States may do this to persons who deal or contract with the federal government.
What is collect a nondiscriminatory tax?
500
Making treaties with other nations; coining money; passing a bill of attainder; enacting an ex post facto law; impairing the obligations of contracts; laying any duty on import or exports, except where necessary for executing its inspection laws; engaging in war; or maintaining a peacetime army.
What are things the Constitution specifically prohibits states form doing?
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