Congress
The Presidency
The Judiciary
Bureaucracy
Know your cases
100
This chamber of Congress is designed to represent all states equally.
What is the Senate?
100
The president can check Congress by using this power.
What is the veto?
100
The number of Supreme Court justices currently serving.
What is nine?
100
The bureaucracy is responsible for doing this with laws passed by Congress.
What is implementing/enforcing them?
100
This court case established the Supreme Court's informal power of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
200
This type of committee is created to work out differences in House and Senate versions of a bill.
What is a conference committee?
200
Congress can override a presidential veto with this type of vote.
What is a two-thirds vote in both chambers?
200
This Federalist paper set forth the rationale behind an independent judiciary.
What is Federalist #78?
200
These are the rules made by bureaucratic agencies that have the force of law.
What are regulations?
200
In this case, the Court struck down racially-based gerrymandering.
What is Shaw v. Reno?
300
This term describes the redrawing of congressional districts to favor a political party.
What is gerrymandering?
300
This constitutional role makes the president the leader of the military.
What is Commander-in-Chief?
300
Latin for "let the decision stand" this concept guides the judiciary to rely heavily on precedents.
What is stare decisis?
300
This image reflects this relationship between regulators, legislators, and lobbyists.
What is an iron triangle?
300
In this case, the Court ruled, "one person one vote."
What is Baker v. Carr?
400
In 2013, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) spoke for 21 hours and 19 minutes in opposition to the Affordable Care Act per this loophole in Senate rules.
What is the filibuster?
400
The justification for a single executive was outlined in this Federalist Paper.
What is Federalist #70?
400
Much like a president, a judge can be removed through this constitutional process.
What is impeachment?
400
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What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
400
This case ruled that executive privilege is not absolute and the president is not above the law.
What is United States v. Nixon?
500
The formal motion used to end or limit debate in the Senate.
What is cloture?
500
Since Jimmy Carter has only served one term in office, this constitutional amendment guarantees he is eligible to run for one more term.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
500
This is when justices interpret the Constitution according to modern circumstances.
What is judicial activism?
500
This is the process where bureaucrats have flexibility to decide how to implement laws passed by Congress.
What is discretionary authority?
500
This foundational case upheld Congress’s power to create a national bank under the Necessary and Proper Clause.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?