The efforts of departments and agencies to translate laws into specific bureaucratic routines
What is Implementations?
100
When Congress holding a hearing on the current IRS scandal to exercise control over the activities of the IRS is an example of what?
What is Oversight?
100
The type of law involving cases in which the powers of government or the rights of citizens are involved.
What is public law?
100
Article that defines what cases fall under appellate jurisdiction and original jurisdiction.
What is Article III?
100
Marbury v. Madison determined that courts have the power to declare actions of the legislative and executive branches invalid or unconstitutional this is referred to as
What is judicial review?
200
Department of government whose mission is to promote, serve, or represent a particular interest (ex. Agriculture, Education)
What is a Clientele Agency?
200
This phenomenon occurs when the bureaucracy declines to faithfully execute the law, and instead, produces policy more to the liking of individual bureaucrats.
What is Bureaucratic Drift?
200
The doctrine where a previous court decision applies as a precedent in similar cases until that decision is overruled.
What is stare decisis?
200
When courts engage in fact finding and determine a judgement of disputes after-the-fact they are performing?
What is dispute resolution?
200
A court order demanding that an individual in custody be brought into court and shown the cause for detention.
What is writ of habeas corpus?
300
The application of rules and precedents to specific cases to settle disputes with regulated parties (eg. National Labor Relations Board deciding on union certification)
What is Administrative Adjudication?
300
In this practice, a program is passed down from the federal government to the state governments, or from the state governments to local governments.
What is Devolution?
300
The Supreme Court docket is determined every year based on
What is the rule of four?
300
Number of days a citizen has to file a petition for a writ of certiorari:
What is 90 days?
300
This court was created to deal with trade and customs issues
What is U.S. Court of International Trade?
400
The FDA is an example of this type of agency, which serves to eliminate or restrict negative behaviors and protect citizens from negative consequences
What is a Regulatory Agency?
400
An example of this form of bureaucratic reform would be the allocation of tax incentives to large businesses in a state in return for bringing in business in state.
What is Deregulation?
400
Cases involving disputes that arise out of obligations inherent in social life (example: negligence) are known as
What are tort cases?
400
The final federal court to which a case can be appealed
What is U.S. Supreme Court?
400
A lawsuit in which a large number of persons with common interests join together to bring or defend a lawsuit
What is a Class-Action Suit
500
The regulatory agency which is responsible for adjusting the supply of money through fiscal and monetary policy
What is the Federal Reserve?
500
This element of reform involves transferring a program from the public sector into the private sector. For example: Allowing private ownership and function of the USPS.
What is Privatization?
500
In order to reach the Supreme Court cases must meet these three criterion:
What is ripeness, standing, and mootness?
500
Regarding the federal system, after a case enters the U.S. District Courts, what is the next level in which cases may proceed?
What is U.S. Court of Appeals?
500
A formal request by an appellant to have the Supreme Court review a decision of a lower court