Declaration of Independence
The section explaining that gives reason for writing it and why they would include this section.
What is the Introduction?
A tactic used in the Senate in which members prevent action on legislation they oppose by continuously holding the floor and speaking until the majority backs down.
What is a filibuster?
The power to review and cancel laws or acts of government if determined to be unconstitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
An example of interaction between the judicial and executive branches?
What are Judicial appointments?—the president appoints Supreme Court justices.
A government agency that performs a service normally provided by the private sector.
What is a government corporation?
The section that states that the colonists are ready to break ties with other individuals in Britain, even Parliament.
What is the Reproach to British Brethren?
The president's constitutional power to reject a bill passed by both houses of Congress.
What is a veto?
Court decisions that go beyond literal interpretations of the Constitution or a statute to consider broader societal implications?
What is Judicial Activism?
Data shows the U.S Federal Spending for the 2015 Fiscal Year. The total spent was $3.7 trillion. Of that total, 25 percent was on healthcare, 24 percent on social security, 16 percent on non-defense discretionary, 16 percent on the Defense Department, 13 percent on other mandatory expenditures, and 6 percent on net interest.
Based on the data in the pie chart, it can be concluded that in 2015?
Based on the data in the pie chart, it can be concluded that in 2015
What is the Senate and president passed a budget that includes funding for healthcare.
Cooperative relationships between congressional committees, agencies, and interest groups to affect policy making.
What is the Iron Triangle?
The 29-part complaint section (against King George III) of the declaration-a list. Includes taxation and attempts they made to resolve these problems.
What is the List of Grievances?
The effort by Congress to exercise control over executive agencies.
What is oversight?
Groups that exert influence to impact a specific policy and agenda.
What are issue networks?
The significance of the Supreme Court ruling in Marbury v. Madison (1803)?
What is establishing the use of judicial review to rule an act of legislation unconstitutional.
Court-enforced redistricting based on the principle of "one-person-one-vote" ensured that urban constituencies were represented proportionally equal to rural area constituents.
What was Baker v. Carr?
The section that introduced that the colonies would now be “Free and Independent States” and would defend themselves-no longer loyal to the king.
What is the Resolution of Independence?
Written announcement of the U.S. president upon signing a bill into law.
What is a signing statement?
Court decisions that adhere to literal interpretations of the meaning of the Constitution.
What is Judicial Restraint?
President Bill Clinton nominated Hershel Gober for Secretary for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Which pair explains a constitutional check on this presidential power?
What is senate confirmation?
Legislative redistricting must be conscious of race and ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
What was Shaw v. Reno?
The part of the Declaration where they explain their beliefs about government and John Locke’s natural rights and social contract theory.
What is the Statement of Rights?
The set of policies an official or group intends to pursue.
What is an agenda?
A government agency that is not part of a Cabinet department.
What is an independent agency?
One method in which the bureaucracy is held accountable to citizens is through.
What are sunshine laws?
Established the principle of judicial review empowering the Court to nullify an act of the legislative or executive branch that violates the Constitution.
What was Marbury v. Madison?