At least four justices of the Supreme Court must vote to consider a case before it can be heard.
What is the Rule of Four?
100
The loose and informal relationships that exist among a large number of actors who work in broad policy areas.
What is an issue network?
100
First case to deal with incorporating the bill of rights
What is Gitlow v. New York?
100
Most political socialization occurs here.
What is within the family?
200
An executive grant providing restoration of all rights and privileges of citizenship to a specific individual charged and convicted of a crime.
What is a pardon?
200
A request for the Supreme Court to order up the records from a lower court to review the case.
What is a Writ of Certiorari?
200
Rule or regulation issued by the president that has the effect of law
What is an executive order?
200
Upheld symbolic speech through the wearing of armbands to protest the Vietnam War by public school students.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
200
Allowed for an income tax.
What is the 16th amendment?
300
The office that prepares the president's annual budget proposal, reviews the budget and programs of the executive departments, etc.
What is the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)?
300
"Friend of the Court" brief
What is amicus curiae?
300
The firing of public office holders of a defeated political party to replace them with loyalists of the newly elected party.
What is the spoils system?
300
Held that the 5th amendment requires that individuals arrested for a crime must be advised of their right to remain silent and have counsel present.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
300
The "Father of the Constitution."
Who is James Madison?
400
Similiar to a line-item veto; a written notification to congress stating how the president will interpret or enforce all or part of a bill.
What is a signing statement?
400
The 4th ranking member of the Department of Justice; responisble for handling nearly all appeals on behalf of the U.S. government to the Supreme Court.
Who is the Solicitor General?
400
The ability of bureaucrats to make choices concerning the best way to implement congressional or executive intentions.
What is administrative discretion?
400
Allows for any person accused of committing a felony the right to an attorney regardless of ability to pay
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
400
Deals with defending the life-time tenure of federal judges.
What is Federalist #78?
500
A vote in congress to override a presidential decision.
What is a legislative veto?
500
A philosophy of judicial decision making that posits judges should use their power broadly to further justice.
What is judicial activism?
500
The "fourth branch" of government
What is the federal bureaucracy?
500
The first case to establish that a right to privacy exists.
What is Connecticut v. Griswold?
500
Law that attempted to increase voter participation by allowing people to register to vote at the DMV while registering thir vehicles.