What is the minimum age requirement in order to become President?
What is 35 years old.
100
How many congress-people make up the U.S. Congress?
What is 535.
100
What are lawsuits that permit a small number of people to sue on behalf of all other people similarly situated?
What are class action suits.
100
What is the term given to a job or promotion that is given for political reasons rather than for merit or competence alone?
What is patronage.
100
What states that "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people"?
What is the Tenth Amendment.
200
Who is third in line to assume the Presidency if the first and second individuals are for some reason unable to?
The Senate President pro tempore
200
What is the institution unique to the House of Representatives that reviews all bills (except revenue, budget, and appropriations bills) coming from a House committee before they go to the full House?
What is the House Rules Committee.
200
What is the term given to the jurisdiction of courts that hear cases brought to them on appeal from lower courts?
What is appellate jurisdiction.
200
What is a government agency responsible for some sector of the economy, making and enforcing rules to protect the public interest?
What is an independent regulatory agency.
200
What clause in the Constitution requires each state to recognize the official documents and civil judgements rendered by courts of other states?
What is full faith and credit.
300
What amendment limits presidents to two four-year terms?
What is the Twenty-second Amendment.
300
What is the only legislative office mandated by the Constitution?
What is the Speaker of the House.
300
How many district courts exist in the United States?
What is 91.
300
What is it called when the responsibility for a policy is dispersed among several units within the bureaucracy?
What is fragmentation.
300
What is a system of government called in which powers and policy assignments are shared between states and the national government?
What is cooperative federalism.
400
What are the two Constitutionally assigned tasks of the Vice President?
What is to preside over the Senate and to vote in case of a tie among senators.
400
Congressional committees appointed for a specific purpose, such as the Watergate investigation are called what?
What are select committees.
400
Who is in charge of the appellate court litigation of the federal government?
Who is the solicitor general.
400
What regulatory industry is responsible for regulating business practices and controlling monopolistic behavior, and is now involved in policing the accuracy of advertising?
What is the Federal Trade Commission (the FTC).
400
What receives the largest percentage of federal grants (about 47%)?
What is health care.
500
What is the name of the committee that links the president's key and military policy advisors?
What is the National Security Council.
500
What percentage of the House is African American?
What is less than 10 percent.
500
What is the phrase used by courts that means "let the decision stand"?
What is stare decisis.
500
What Act created a federal civil service so that hiring and promotion would be based on merit rather than patronage?
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act.
500
What is the legal process by which an alleged criminal offender is surrendered by the officials of one state to the officials of the state in which the crime is alleged to have been committed?