More Alliterative Vocab
Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, etc.
What are political parties?
Where SCOTUS nominees are vetted
What is Judiciary?
The lowest court of federal original jurisdiction.
What are district courts?
February of 1803. A victory for those in black robes!
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The Cabinet-level department concerned with foreign Policy.
What is the State Departmernt?
Another term for the Great Compromise.
What is the Connecticut Compromise?
Is a tomato a fruit or vegetable? Should it be GMO? Let's ask this committee!
What is Agriculture?
Per Article III, this group has power to establish courts inferior to the US Supreme Court.
What is Congress?
Philadelphia: September 17, 1787.
What is the drafting of the US Constitution?
The President exercises this role when engaged in foreign policy.
What is Chief Diplomat?
A sociological term to explain the differences in political ideologies and voting behaviors of men and women
What is gender gap?
This committee reviews the President's proposed expenditures for the upcoming fiscal year.
What is Budget?
There are 12 of these geographical regions of jurisdiction for the US Court of Appeals, plus another for special federal cases.
What are circuits?
1920. It doubled the size of the electorate.
What is the ratification of the 19th Amendment?
These three-letter acronyms are often closely linked with interest groups.
What are NGOs?
These two entitlement programs trail only Social Security as some of the federal government's biggest expenditures.
What are Medicare and Medicaid?
Where procedures are set for "House"keeping.
What is Rules?
It's not uncommon for SCOTUS to grant certiorari to these "courts of last appeal" at the state level.
What are state supreme courts?
August 9, 1974. The first and only of its kind.
What is the resignation of Nixon?
The foreign policy equivalent of the executive order, allowing the POTUS to circumvent the's Senate approval of treaties.
What is an executive agreement?
What is the spoils system?
Where tax policy is implemented.
What is Ways & Means?
This amendment specifically prohibits federal courts from hearing cases in which a state is sued by an individual from another state or another country.
What is the 11th Amendment?
Alabama, 1963. History is made through incarceration.
What is "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
This multilateral agreement came out of the Marshall Plan and has once again "heated up" in recent years due to conflicts in Eastern Europe.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?