Congress
The title of the presiding officer in the House of Representatives.
What is the Speaker of the House?
The president's constitutional power to turn down acts of Congress, which can only be overriden by a two-thirds vote of each house.
What is the veto?
The Constitution creates this many courts.
What is one Supreme Court?
Parties nominate candidates through this type of election.
What are primary elections?
Policy that aims to promote and protect the well-being of citizens.
What is social policy?
What are committees?
A presidential directive to the bureaucracy to undertake some action, bypassing Congress and the legislative process.
What is an executive order?
The Supreme Court's power to invalidate laws made by Congress.
What is judicial review?
Single member districts and plurality elections have produced this type of system in the US.
What is a two-party system?
A strategy by which organized interests seek to influence the passage of legislation by exerting direct pressure on government officials.
What is lobbying?
A tactic used by members of the Senate to prevent action on legislation they oppose that can only be overcome with the support of sixty Senators.
What is the filibuster?
What is the Cabinet?
A legal system based on precedent.
What is common law?
Emotional dislike for members of the other party.
What is affective polarization?
Social security is the best known example of this type of social policy.
What is a contributory program?
A bill combining several smaller appropriations bills into a single package that can be passed with one vote in each chamber.
What is the omnibus appropriations bill?
The newest executive branch department, created soon after the 9/11/2001 attacks.
On the basis of this jurisdiction, the Supreme Court can hear cases involving ambassadors, public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party.
What is original jurisdiction?
Independent political action committees that can raise unlimited sums of money but are forbidden from coordinating directly with candidates' campaigns.
What are Super PACS?
The three groups that benefit the most from existing social policy.
Who are the elderly, the middle class, and the upper class?
The most powerful committee in the House of Representatives, responsible for deciding the order in which bills come up for a vote on the floor and determining the specific rules that govern the length of debate and opportunity for amendments.
What is the House Rules Committee?
An office within the Executive Office of the President responsible for preparing the nation's budget and managing the bureaucracy.
What is the Office of Management and Budget?
The right of an individual or organization to initiate a court case, often on the basis of being able to demonstrate injury to oneself.
What is standing?
An agreement among states to award their Electoral College votes to the winner of the popular vote in a presidential election.
What is the National Popular Voter Interstate Compact?
The cooperative relationship that develops among (1) a congressional committee, (2) an administrative agency, and (3) one or more interest groups.
What is an iron triangle?