Legislature
What is making laws?
The current sitting president
Who is Joe Biden?
The length of a Supreme Court Justice's term, meant to separate them from political and public pressures
What is life?
The system utilized in the election of the Chief Executive of the United States. According to said system, each state receives a number of electors equal to the number of representatives it has in congress.
This Unit of Government class contained a Discussion, rather than a test, for it's final assessment.
What is Unit 3: The Political Process?
This position, elected in the House of Representatives, carries the most authority of any one member of congress
What is the Speaker of the House?
The term used to indicate the president has refused to sign a bill
What is veto?
The term used to refer to the power of the Judiciary that allows it to declare acts or laws unconstitutional
What is Judicial Review?
The term used to describe a person who takes part in an organized attempt to influence legislatures. The name came from the location that one would wait to speak to their officials in the 18th and 19th centuries.
What is a lobbyist?
The snack used to demonstrate a knowledge of the forms of government in Unit 1.
What are gummy bears?
The clause that allows for the most power to be exercised by the legislative branch
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause (Article 1, Section 8)?
The role that indicates the president is the highest authority with regard to military actions
What is Commander-in-Chief?
The rights required to be read to a suspect in the case of their arrest. The result of a Supreme Court case involving the state of Arizona.
This type of political party is at a disadvantage in the United States' "Winner-take-all," election system
What are third-parties?
What song did Mr. G claim must be played at least once in every Government class?
What is Schoolhouse Rock's "They Call Me Bill"?
This is the location in the lawmaking process in which most bills end their journey.
What is they die in committee?
What is the Cabinet?
The first set of courts that oversee a case in which the defendant or prosecutor believes misconduct has occurred in the case's original jurisdiction.
What is Appellate Court?
George Washington warned that if these things were to emerge in American politics, then government officials would act in a "spirit of revenge," with one another. He feared it would result in politicians only serving for the purposes of power, and not to serve the people
What are Factions (Political Parties)?
The name of Mr. G's pet cat.
What is "Callie?"
The house of the legislature that votes to begin impeachment procedures
What is the House of Representatives?
The annual speech given by the president that guides the congressional agenda for the year
What is the State-of-the-Union?
This principle protects a citizen from imprisonment without a trial
What is Due Process (The 5th Amendment)?
This system of designating electoral districts in a biased fashion was named after both a man and a lizards name.
What is Gerrymandering?
MR. G has met this political leader who is currently still serving in a US government position
Who is Gretchen Whitmer?