President
The minimum age of a President.
What is 35?
Congress is divided into these two chambers.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
This is the highest court in the United States.
What is the Supreme Court?
This term describes the administrative system of the government.
What is the bureaucracy?
This term describes communication channels that reach large audiences.
What is mass media?
Powers that the President is assumed to have.
What are inherent powers?
his type of committee reconciles differences between House and Senate versions of a bill.
What is a conference committee?
This term refers to the power of the courts to declare laws unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
The Pendleton Act established that federal employees should be hired based on this system.
What is merit-based?
This term refers to news stories that focus on sensationalism and scandal.
What is yellow journalism?
What is NAFTA?
This enumerated power gives Congress control over federal spending.
What is the power of the purse?
This landmark case established judicial review in 1803.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This term refers to rules issued by federal agencies that have the force of law.
What are regulations?
This term describes the media’s role in shaping what the public considers important.
What is agenda-setting?
This constitutional duty requires the President to report on the condition of the country.
What is the State of the Union Address?
This rule in the Senate allows a minority to delay legislation by extended debate.
What is a filibuster?
This concept ensures judges can make decisions free from political pressure.
What is judicial independence?
This executive principle allows agencies to implement and enforce laws passed by Congress.
What is administrative discretion?
This type of journalism involves in-depth reporting to uncover corruption.
What is investigative journalism?
This term describes the President’s use of public appeals to pressure Congress.
What is the bully pulpit?
This clause allows Congress to make laws necessary for executing its powers.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
This term describes when courts interpret the Constitution in line with modern conditions.
What is judicial activism?
This term refers to bureaucratic agencies prioritizing their interests over the public’s.
What is bureaucratic capture?
This term describes the media’s focus on polling data during elections instead of issues.
What is horse race journalism?