Congress
This term describes a two-house legislature.
What is a bicameral legislature?
Article _____ establishes the executive branch
What is Article II?
Article _____ establishes the judicial branch.
What is Article III?
The large network of executive branch employees that carries out government policies.
What is the bureaucracy?
Voting based on the wishes of constituents
What is delegate model?
Which Federalist Paper argues that the judiciary is the "least dangerous branch" because it has neither force nor will, but merely judgment?
What is Federalist No. 78?
Which chamber has 435 members who serve two-year terms?
What is the House of Representatives?
The President's power to reject legislation.
What is a veto?
The power to determine whether laws are constitutional.
What is judicial review?
Rewarding political supporters with government jobs.
What is patronage?
Voting based on personal judgment and experience.
What is the trustee model?
Which Federalist Paper argues that the nation needs a single, energetic executive rather than multiple executives?
What is Federalist No. 70?
This Senate procedure allows unlimited debate to delay action on a bill.
What is a filibuster?
A directive issued by the president without congressional approval
What is an executive order?
This landmark case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This act made federal hiring merit-based rather than patronage-based.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
Redrawing district boundaries after population changes.
What is redistricting?
According to Federalist No. 78, why does the judiciary depend on the other branches?
What is because the courts have no power to enforce decisions or control funding and must rely on the executive and legislative branches?
A 3/5 vote is used to end a filibuster
What is cloture?
The President's role as leader of the armed forces.
What is the Commander in Chief?
A request asking the Supreme Court to hear a case.
What is a writ/petition of certiorari?
The process by which agencies create regulations to implement law.
What is rule-making?
Redrawing district boundaries after population changes.
What is Gerrymandering?
What law requires the president to notify Congress after deploying troops and limits military action without congressional approval?
What is the War Powers Act (War Powers Resolution)?
Temporary committees created to resolve differences between House and Senate versions of a bill.
What is a conference committee?
What type of opinion is written when a justice disagrees with the majority decision?
What is a dissenting opinion?
How many Supreme Court justices must agree to hear a case?
What is four? (Rule of Four)
Congressional committees use this power to determine how much money agencies receive.
What is the power of the purse?
This 1962 case established the principle of "one person, one vote."
What is Baker v. Carr
What is Congress doing when it holds hearings and investigates federal agencies?
What is congressional oversight?