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100

This is how many Senators there are per state.

What is two?

100

This is how many terms the president can run.

What is two?

100

This is the name of the group of people that are the president's top advisors that run all of the bureaucracy.

What is the Cabinet?

100

This is the number of justices that are needed for a majority opinion.

What is 5 of the 9?

100

This is the person who wrote both Federalist 70 and 78.

Who is Alexander Hamilton?
200

This is the term for having a Congress made of two houses, the House of Representatives and the Senate.

What is bicameralism?

200

This is the term for when a president does nothing with a bill for ten days and it automatically becomes a law.

What is a pocket veto?

200

Name any executive agency or Cabinet position.

Answers vary: Ms. Rios will say if you are right.

Cabinet positions:

  • Secretary of State: Manages foreign affairs.
  • Secretary of the Treasury: Handles government fiscal matters.
  • Secretary of Defense: Oversees military and national security.
  • Attorney General (Justice Dept.): Top legal advisor and law enforcement official.
  • Secretary of Agriculture: Focuses on farming and food production.
  • Secretary of Commerce: Oversees business, trade, and innovation.
  • Secretary of Labor: Manages workforce issues.
  • Secretary of Health and Human Services: Oversees health services.
  • Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Manages community development.
  • Secretary of Transportation: Oversees transportation infrastructure.
  • Secretary of Energy: Manages energy resources.
  • Secretary of Education: Oversees national education policies.
  • Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Manages benefits and services for veterans.
  • Secretary of Homeland Security: Protects against terrorism and manages borders.
  • Secretary of the Interior: Manages natural resources and national
200

In Baker v. Carr and Shaw v. Reno, the topic of both of these cases revolve around redistricting to favor a party or this term.

What is gerrymandering?

200

Alexander Hamilton says in Federalist 78 that this is the weakest branch so we do not need to fear it becoming tyrannical.

What is the judiciary or judicial branch?

300

This is strong allegiance to one's own political party, often leading to unwillingness to compromise with members of the opposing party in Congress.

What is partisanship? (similar to party line voting but in Congress)

300

This is a informal agreement the president has between two countries that does not have to go through the Senate for approval.

What is an executive agreement?

300

This is the term for what Congress can do with the agencies in the bureaucracy, when they look over their spending and what the agencies are actually doing.

What is oversight?

300

Both Baker v. Carr and Shaw v. Reno base their arguments around this constitutional amendment and argument.

What is the 14th Amendment?

300

In Federalist 70, Alexander Hamilton states that we need to have this type of executive because it is essential for a good government, accountability, and the protection of liberty. 

What is a single or unitary executive?

400

This is the type of spending that changes from year to year and can be added to the budget through an appropriations bill. An example of this is military spending.

What is discretionary spending?

400

This is when the president uses their position of authority to pressure Congress into acting on their demands, usually while they are giving the State of the Union address.

What is the bully pulpit?

400

Name the three parts that make up the iron triangle.

What are interest groups, Congress and the bureaucracy?

400

This SCOTUS case states that racial gerrymandering is not allowed because it breaks the 14th Amendment.

What is Shaw v. Reno?

400
This was the way to make sure the judicial branch stay unbiased and not succumb to the pressures of the populace.

What is making the justices serve for life?

500

This is where specifically the enumerated powers of Congress are found.

What is Article 1, Section 8?

500

This is an addition issued by the President that accompanies the signing of a law. These are often controversial because their legal status remains uncertain.

What are signing statements?

500

These are looser policy networks that form between media, experts in the field, and interest groups.

What are issue networks?

500
In Baker v. Carr, gerrymandering could not occur because it would make unequal districts. They stated all districts needed to represent this concept.

What is the one person one vote model?

500

In this Federalist Paper, James Madison asserts the need for checks and balances by stating that if men were no angels we would not need to have government itself.

What is Federalist 51?

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