Foundations of Gov
This government type is run by a small group of elites
What is an oligarchy?
This Article of the Constitution sets up the Judicial Branch.
What is Article III?
This how many members are in the House of Reps.
What is 435?
This is the Conservative party in the United States.
What is the Republican Party?
This Supreme Court case disallowed segregation in schools.
What is Brown v Board of Education?
Lacking power to tax, this document was replaced in the United States.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Part of the Great Compromise, this plan wanted equal representation for all states.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
This Cabinet position deals with the military.
This type of election is the selection of candidates to run for a political party in an upcoming election.
What is a primary election?
Name the three presidents to be impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump?
This term means a loose group of independent states that have a small central government.
What is a confederation?
This states no cruel or unusual punishments.
What is the 8th Amendment?
This jurisdiction refers to cases heard by the supreme court that did not go through appeals.
What is Original Jurisdiction?
When president is not on the ballot we call an election by this name.
What is a midterm?
The largest state in the US has this many electoral votes.
What is 54?
This tax targeted paper goods in the American Colonies.
What is the stamp act?
This term refers to the split between states and the central government in terms of power.
What is Federalism?
There can be no jail time for this type of law that occurs between a plaintiff and defendant.
What is civil law?
The president is a Republican but congress is majority democrat. This is called what?
What is Divided Government?
This political party was created by Teddy Roosevelt.
What is the Bull Moose party?
A type of government in which one person has total control of said government.
These powers are written directly in the constitution.
What are Expressed powers?
This way to kill a bill occurs when a president does nothing with a bill.
What is a pocket veto?
This term refers to legislation that is done by one party alone.
What is partisan?
Who is Chief Justice John Marshall?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Article VI creates this clause that states federal laws supersedes state laws.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
Signing treaties and making pacts with foreign governments are examples of this type of power of a president.
What are Diplomatic Powers?
This type of gerrymandering is the cramming of similar ideological people into one district.
What is Packing? (Stacking)
This is the largest campaign finance special interest group.
What is the retirement industry?
John Locke proposed this theory that says governments are formed by people with a common goal that give authority to a government
What is Social Contract Theory?
This supreme court case set the precedent and power of Judicial Review.
What is Marbury V Madison?
This position breaks a tie in the Senate and presides over sessions.
What is the Vice President?
The minimum amount of electoral votes to win an election is this number.
What is 270?
As of 2022 this is the current majority leader of the Senate.
Who is the Chuck Schumer?