Judicial
Executive
Congress
Bureaucracy
Misc
100

This case established judicial review

What is Marbury v. Madison?

100

The President serves as the ceremonial or symbolic head of government, commonly referred to as...

What is the Head of State?

100

When districts construct district boundaries to favor a particular political party

What is gerrymandering?

100

This branch of government most responsible for the bureaucracy.

What is the Executive branch?
100

To appease small states and big states in terms of representation, this was the compromise.

What is the Connecticut Compromise?

200

Civil liberties are individual freedoms protected by...

What is the Bill of Rights?
200

This is one thing required of the president every year.

What is the State of the Union?
200

The generational group most represented in Congress is...

Who are the Boomers?

200

The heads of these 15 agencies create...

What is the President's cabinet?
200

This clause in the Constitution requires that states respect records and proceedings from other states.

What is the Full Faith and Credit Clause?

300

Cases involving equal protection are least likely to win against the government when this is applied.

What is the rational basis test?

300
This is the two ways a president can reject legislation.

What is the veto and the pocket veto?

300

This amendment gave women the right to vote.

What is the 19th Amendment?

300

This act prohibits Federal employees from engaging in political work (working for political candidates or running for partisan office).

What is the Hatch Act of 1939?

300

The process in which federal protections in the Bill of Rights were extended to state governments on a case by case basis

What is Selective Incorporation?

400

This decisions by the Supreme Court led to the creation of super PACs.

What is Citizens United?
400

The president going public with information about a bargaining process.

What is the Bully Pulpit?

400

Legislators working to bring special benefits to state or district

What is Pork Barrelling?

400

When bureaucrats responsible for implementing government policies use their discretion in a way that deviates from the way Congress thinks the agency should be run.

What is Agency Drift?

400

A political system, such as ours, where the powers of government are shared at many different levels (i.e. national, state, and local) is known as this...     

                                           

What is a Federalist system?

500

The Lemon Test addressed this clause in the First Amendment

What is the Establishment Clause?

500

Presidential powers derived from Article II of the Constitution.

What are Formal Powers?

500

This is the procedure used to end a filibuster.

What is cloture?

500

A process in which the structure and not the substance of the work dominates: the focus is on deadlines and paperwork.

What is Bureaucratic Proceduralism?

500

The Clear and Present Danger Exception derived from this case.

What is Schenck vs. United States?