That's the "I'll vote for your bill now if you'll vote for mine later" practice
What is logrolling?
100
That, more than anything else, confers on the president the title "Head of Government'
What is "being at the top of the government bureaucracy"
100
It's the most recent cabinet department
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
100
These are the eight judges on the Supreme Court
Who are Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Kennedy, Kagan, Sotomayor, Breyer, and Ginzberg?
200
That is the term for giving jobs and such to those who have worked for and supported your campaign
What is Patronage?
200
Those are the top jobs in the House and Senate
What is "Speaker of the House" and "Senate Majority Leader"
200
That is the definition an inherent power
What is a power not explicitly stated in the Constitution, but inferred from it and generally understood to be a presidential power - this is sort of where executive orders came from.
200
Those are the two cabinet posts - and they're two of the big five - whose responsibilities are not immediately obvious from their titles.
What is Secretary of State and Attorney General.
200
That is the fundamental difference betwen Criminal and Criminal law
"Criminal law has the potential to involve government-imposed punishment (fines, incarceration); also, a government body is a party to the case."
AND
"Civil law does not involve punishment; most cases involve disputes over either contracts or torts (injury)."
300
That's the total number of electoral college votes needed to win the presidency
270
300
That's the purpose of a conference committee
What is reconciling the house and senate versions of a bill?
300
That is the organization under the president that has the job of putting together the initial budget proposal submitted to Congress
What is the OMB?
300
Those would be two examples of independent agencies
What is the FCC, the FEC, NASA, the CIA, the EPA, the FTC
300
These are "the rules of access" Cases must have these to be considered by the Supreme Court
What are actual (not hypothetical) controversy, "standing" of both parties, and mootness
400
That is the work that congresspeople do for individual constituents
What is casework?
400
That's called the distributive tendency
What is the pattern of the "goodies" of any piece of legislation being spread out among many congressional districts?
400
That's what a president will claim after a successful election
What is a "mandate" to make policy as he sees fit?
400
These are three tools of "after the fact" authority that Congress can use to reign in the bureaucracy
What is the power of the purse, oversight (investigation) and rewriting the legislation
400
Those would be briefs filed by interested parties other than parties directly involved in the suit
What is amicus curiae
500
These are the formal names of the two steps involved in correcting the allocation of congressional seats
What is Apportionment (by Congress, based on the census) and Redistricting (by state legislatures)
500
That's an "open rule" and the committee that sets it
What is "allowing debate and amendment to a bill" as set by the House Rules Committee
500
That was called "the southern strategy"
What was Nixon's shift in the focus of Republican politics (especially in the wake of the Civil Rights movement) that caused the majorities in many Southern states to leave their "yellow-dog Democrat" ways behind and, for the first time, vote Republican?
500
Bureaucratic Drift
What is the tendency for the implementation of policy to squidge away from the way the legislation was originally written and be more to the liking of the bureaucracy?
500
That's a writ of certiorari
What is the official request of the court to a lower court for them to gather together all the documents pertaining to a case so the Supreme Court can review it.