Executive 1
Executive 2
Judicial 1
Judicial 2
Miscellaneous
100
A power the president has to postpone one's punishment.
What is reprieve?
100
Agreements with other countries made by the President.
What is treaties?
100
The type of law that describes disputes between people.
What is civil?
100
Name of the type of court that reviews decisions of lower courts.
What is Court of Appeals?
100
General number of cases the Supreme Court actually considers per year.
What is 100?
200
A president's plan for interacting with other countries of the world.
What is foreign policy?
200
The President's power to excuse or forgive someone for a crime.
What is pardon?
200
An earlier decision that allows justification for a decision of a similar nature.
What is precedent?
200
A law passed by the legislature.
What is statute?
200
Number of justices on the Supreme Court.
What is 9?
300
The official title of the president's advisors who act as cabinet heads.
What is secretary?
300
The official title of the head of the justice department.
What is attorney general?
300
Name for the 94 federal trial courts in the country.
What are District Courts?
300
Term for the power of the Supreme Court to declare a law constitutional or unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
300
Name of the current Supreme Court chief justice.
Who is John Roberts?
400
The term for reducing one's sentence for a crime.
What is commutation?
400
The name of the group of the president's military advisors who head each of the armed services.
What is Joint Chiefs of Staff?
400
Term for the reasoning of one Supreme Court justice who disagreed with the majority view.
What is dissenting opinion?
400
Term for returning a case to a lower court for retrial.
What is remand?
400
General number of employees who work in the U.S. government's bureacracy.
What is 3 million?
500
A presidentially -ppointed official who looks after America's commercial interests abroad.
What is consul?
500
Term for all the agencies and departments of civil service that make up the government.
What is bureaucracy?
500
The authority a court may have to see a case for the first time.
What is original jurisdiction?
500
Number of judges on a Court of Appeals.
What is 3?
500
Document allowing foreigners to come to the U.S. for work, study, or travel.
What is a visa?
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