Presidents
The fraction of votes needed in each house of Congress to override a veto.
The ability of the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
The term originally used to describe reporters that waited in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
What is a Lobbyist?
The most recent Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
The resulting documents of the president enacting policy without Congress.
What are Executive Orders?
The Supreme Court case that instated judicial review.
What is Marburry v. Madison?
The years during which the most documented rapid growth of interest groups occurred.
When is the 1960s - 1980s?
The speech that the president gives that suggests an agenda to Congress.
What is the State of the Union Address?
The act of a president essentially killing a bill by waiting for Congress to adjourn.
What is the Pocket Veto?
The name of the document written by Justices who disagreed with the majority.
The term for lobbying that involves personal contact between a lobbyist and a member of Congress.
The president that has utilized the most vetoes.
Who is FDR?
The act of a president striking down specific parts of a bill.
What is the Line-Item Veto?
The committee that is responsible for investigating new Supreme Court appointees.
What is the Senate Judiciary Committee?
The term for the period of time when an exiting member of Congress is banned from lobbying.
What is a Cooling-Off Period?
The president who appointed 58 new judges on his last night in office (aka Midnight Judges Act).
Who is John Adams? :)
The term that characterizes the relationship between the three branches.
What is Interdependency?
The name for bills that take power away from the courts.
What are Court-Curbing Bills?
The term for caucuses in the House that allow Representatives to be involved in special topic committees outside their normal committees.
What are Congressional Member Organizations (CMO)?
These three presidents have been impeached.
Who are Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump (x2)?