Civil Lib (from Jen)
President (from Helen)
Judiciary (from VOSS)
Executive (from Helen)
Policy (from Victoria)
100
The document where most civil liberties are found.
What is the Bill of Rights?
100
Has the power to grant pardons for offenses against the United States.
Who is the President?
100
Power of federal judges to nullify laws they deem unconstitutional, as declared in Marbury v. Madison.
What is judicial review?
100
When at least one congressional chamber is controlled by a party other than the president's.
What is divided government?
100
Internal policies such as health care, retirement, insurance, and education.
What is domestic policy?
200
Amendment that guarantees unenumerated individual rights.
What is the 9th Amendment?
200
Used in place of treaties by a president who wants to make a deal with other countries.
What are executive agreements?
200
The campaign against this conservative judge, nominated to SCOTUS by Pres. Reagan, is blamed for politicizing confirmation hearings.
Who is Robert Bork?
200
When the president turns down legislation passed by the House and the Senate.
What is the veto?
200
Policy that warned European countries to stay out of the Western Hemisphere in exchange for U.S. neutrality in European affairs.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
300
Protects against being prosecuted a second time for a crime after being acquitted of it.
What is the Double Jeopardy Clause (of the 6th Amendment)?
300
The speech in which presidents update Congress on national conditions.
What is the State of the Union Address?
300
The moderate justice who acts as median voter on the Supreme Court right now, defining the ideological center.
Who is Anthony Kennedy?
300
When the executive branch (usually the president) sets policy without going through Congress.
What is unilateral executive action?
300
Approach to foreign policy that encouraged involvement in foreign affairs to protect U.S. interests abroad.
What is interventionism?
400
Supreme Court case that struck down a state ban on selling contraceptives to married people.
What is Griswold v. Connecticut?
400
Refers to the president's ability to propose (or express support for) legislation to be introduced in the Congress.
What is the Recommendation Power?
400
His risky decision to block Pres. Obama's last Supreme Court nomination paid off when Donald Trump won the presidency.
Who is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky?
400
Commands that a President submits to the bureaucracy indicating how policy should be carried out.
What are executive orders?
400
The idea that a nation or people has the right to define their political status in the international system.
What is self-determination?
500
Freedom of speech, worship, want, and fear.
What are FDR's four freedoms?
500
The idea that presidents receive more deference when setting foreign policy than when setting domestic policy.
What is the Two-Presidencies Hypothesis?
500
Authority to hold trials that was given unconstitutionally to the Supreme Court by the Judiciary Act of 1789.
What is original jurisdiction?
500
When the President approves a law but attaches an explanation how the law will be interpreted by his administration.
What is a signing statement?
500
Two policies for the elderly that neither Democrats nor Republicans usually are willing to consider cutting.
What are Social Security and Medicare?
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