Making the laws
This is the age you must be to be elected to the Senate
What is 30 years old?
This body of people elects the President of the United States
What is the Electoral College?
This is the power of the Supreme Court to declare an act of Congress or the President unconstitutional
What is judicial review?
Donald Trump has gone through this process twice, where Congress has charged him with a crime
What is impeachment?
This branch has the power to declare war on other countries
What is legislative branch/Congress?
This style of representative makes decisions based on their own judgment, party influence, and expert opinion.
What is a trustee?
This is the age you must be to be elected president
What is 35 years old?
This is the Supreme Court case that led to the Supreme Court explicitly having the power of judicial review
What is Marbury vs Madison?
The President gets to nominate these officials, who need to be approved by Congress
What are federal officials and Supreme Court Justices?
This branch has the power to collect taxes
What is the legislative branch/Congress?
This style of representative makes judgments according to constituent preferences rather than their own judgment or other influences
What is a delegate?
This type of election allows voters to express whom they want to run for the presidency
What is a primary election?
This type of jurisdiction is focused on matters of law, not facts of the case
What is appellate jurisdiction?
This proportion of House Representatives and Senators is required to override a Presidential veto
What is 2/3rds?
This branch has the power to appoint ambassadors
What is the executive branch/President?
These groups of Congress members is where bills are first proposed, debated, and voted on
What are committees?
This type of primary election requires you to be a registered member of that party to vote in that party's primary
What is a closed primary?
This type of federal court has original jurisdiction in civil and criminal cases involving misdemeanors.
What is a district court?
This presidential power to pick and choose parts of a bill to approve was declared unconstitutional in 1998
What is a line-item veto?
This branch has the power to judge cases involving ambassadors
What is the judicial branch/Supreme Court?
This type of representation is concerned with demographic representation
What is descriptive representation?
This form of direct action allows the President to make some policies
What is an executive order?
This Latin term is the process the Supreme Court uses to decide which cases it hears
What is granting certiorari ("cert")?
This type of indirect action allows the President to encourage citizens to contact their representatives and support/disapprove of certain policies
What is "going public" (using technology to speak directly to citizens)?
This branch has the power to "raise" (create, draft people into) an army
What is the legislative branch/Congress?