The Bureaucracy
E.O.P
Executive Department
Judicial System
Courts
100

A form of organization that operates through impersonal, uniform rules and procedures

What is bureaucracy?

100

Which office helps the president prepare the annual federal budget?

Office of Management and Budget 

100

Provides legal advice to the president, enforces federal laws, represents the United States in court, operates federal prisons 

What is justice?

100

What is the highest court in the federal judicial system?

Supreme Court

100

A detailed statement of the facts of the case supporting a particular positions by presenting arguments based on relevant facts and citations from previous cases 

What is a brief?

200

Executive influence

appointing the right people, issuing executive orders, affecting the agency's budget, reorganization of the agency

200

What office is the advisory and planning agency to combat the nation's drug problem?

Office of National Drug Control Policy 

200

Collects federal; revenues, pays federal bills, mints coins and prints paper money, enforces alcohol, tobacco and firearm laws

What is treasury?

200

Decide civil and criminal cases arising under the Constitution and federal laws or treaties 

What is district courts?

200

A majority of the justices agree on the decision and its reasons

What is majority opinion?

300

Civil Service Act of 1883, passed after the assassination of Garfield 

What is Pendleton Act 

300

What does the Official of Policy Development do?

gives the President domestic policy advice

300

Provides agricultural assistance to farmers and ranchers, inspect food, manages national forests

What is agriculture?

300

A testof ideological purity toward a liberal or conservative stand on certain issues such as abortion

What is "litmus test"?

300

Term begins on the first Monday in October and generally lasts until June or July the following year

What is Supreme Court?

400

Four basic types the federal bureaucracy is divided into

What is cabinet departments, independent executive agencies, independent regulatory agencies, and government corporations?

400

Provides administrative services to personnel of the EOC and gives direct support services to the president 

What is office of administration?

400

Grants patents and trademarks, conducts the national census, promotes international trade

What is commerce?

400

What does the Courts of Appeals do?

Decide appeals from the United States district courts and review decisions of federal administrative agencies

400

An order by the Court directing a lower court to send up the records of a case review 

What is writ of certiorari?

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