This case established judicial review
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The President serves as the ceremonial or symbolic head of government, commonly referred to as...
What is the Head of State?
When districts construct district boundaries to favor a particular political party
What is gerrymandering?
This branch of government most responsible for the bureaucracy.
To appease small states and big states in terms of representation, this was the compromise.
What is the Connecticut Compromise?
Civil liberties are individual freedoms protected by...
This is one thing required of the president every year.
The generational group most represented in Congress is...
Who are the Boomers?
The heads of these 15 agencies create...
This clause in the Constitution requires that states respect records and proceedings from other states.
What is the Full Faith and Credit Clause?
Cases involving equal protection are least likely to win against the government when this is applied.
What is the rational basis test?
What is the veto and the pocket veto?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
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?
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?
This decisions by the Supreme Court led to the creation of super PACs.
The president going public with information about a bargaining process.
What is the Bully Pulpit?
Legislators working to bring special benefits to state or district
What is Pork Barrelling?
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?
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?
The Lemon Test addressed this clause in the First Amendment
What is the Establishment Clause?
Presidential powers derived from Article II of the Constitution.
What are Formal Powers?
This is the procedure used to end a filibuster.
What is cloture?
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?
The Clear and Present Danger Exception derived from this case.
What is Schenck vs. United States?