The legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
What is Congress?
100
A political party's or candidate's written statement of principles and plans.
What is a platform?
100
This guarantees the rights of free expressions and actions that are fundamental to democratic government.
What is the First Amendment?
100
A phrase that suggests a confident hope that one's children's economic and social condition will be better than one's own.
What is the American Dream?
100
Provides services for farmers including research, soil conservation, and efforts to regulate and stabilize the farming economy.
What is the Department of Agriculture?
200
Composed of a chief justice and eight associate justices, all of whom are appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate.
What is the Supreme Court?
200
Abbreviated as GOP, it is a nickname for the Republican Party in the United States.
What is Grand Old Party?
200
This type of punishment is prohibited by the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution.
What is cruel and unusual?
200
The head of the United States Department of Justice and a member of the president's cabinet.
What is the attorney general of the United States?
200
Entrusted with formulating military policies and maintaining American military forces.
What is the Department of Defense?
300
At the state level, this person is the head of the executive branch.
What is a governor?
300
A part of a chicken - or a descriptive term for an individual or a political faction that advocates liberal, radical, or even revolutionary policies, usually in favor of overcoming social inequalities.
What is left-wing?
300
The practice known as double jeopardy is prohibited by this amendment.
What is the Fifth.
300
The right of teachers and students to express their ideas in the classroom or in writing, free from political, religious, or institutional restrictions, even if these ideas are unpopular.
What is academic freedom?
300
They are responsible for the national highways and for railroad and airline safety.
What is the Department of Transportation?
400
A group of presidential advisers, composed of the heads of the fourteen government departments.
What is the cabinet?
400
The leader of the political party that holds a minority of seats in either house of Congress or of a state legislature.
What is a minority leader?
400
Without appropriate legal procedures and safeguards, an individual cannot be deprived of life, liberty, and this.
What is property?
400
After oil was discovered in Prudhoe Bay in 1968, construction of this was delayed for several years in fear of the effects on the ecosystems through which it would run.
What is the Alaskan pipeline?
400
The are primarily responsible for making and conducting foreign policy.
What is the Department of State?
500
They are responsible for coordinating information-gathering activities outside the United States in the interest of national security.
What is the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)?
500
Two symbols introduced in a series of political cartoons by Thomas Nast during the congressional elections of 1874.
What is a donkey and elephant?
500
Being forced or coerced to testify against oneself, which is prohibited in the United States.
What is self-incrimination?
500
In the House of Representatives it is based on the relative population of each state, whereas in the Senate it is based on equal representation for every state.
What is apportionment (of seats)?
500
Having the general responsibility for setting federal fiscal policy, it includes the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).