The Presidency
The article of the Constitution that discusses the Executive Branch.
What is Article 2?
The number of justices on the court.
What is 9?
The type of law that settles disputes between individuals.
What is Civil Law?
The plural term for the word "medium."
What is media?
The oldest political party in America.
What is the Democratic Party?
The number of terms a President could serve in the original Constitution.
What is unlimited?
The only formal qualification for Supreme Court justices in the Constitution.
What is good behavior?
The official power to make legal decisions.
What is jurisdiction?
When the media reports on corruption in government, it is sometimes called as serving as a __________.
What is a watchdog?
This man was the first President of the Republican party.
Who is Lincoln?
The presidential power to direct the U.S. military.
What is the commander-in-chief?
The number of justices that must agree to hear a case.
What is four?
The vast majority of cases are heard at this level.
What is the state level?
Thirty percent of people report receiving their news from this source.
What are newspapers?
What is by winning elections?
The category of executive power that characterizes the power to pardon.
What is judicial power?
The amount of time the each party gets to present their case to the court.
What is 30 minutes?
The Constitutional principle that states you cannot be tried twice for the same crime.
What is double jeopardy?
This type of journalism is focused on a particular area, like sports or politics.
What is niche journalism?
The type of election in which political parties choose a nominee for the general election.
What is a primary election?
A signed directive from the President that orders all federal works to act in a particular way.
What is an Executive Order?
What a Supreme Court justice, on the losing side, sometimes writes to explain their stance.
What is a dissenting opinion?
This cannot be introduced in an appellate court.
What is new evidence?
NPR is an example of what type of radio program?
What is public radio?
The theorem that says that the number of parties in a country is determined by the electoral system.
What is Duverger's Law?