Legislative Branch
The number of Senators in the Senate
What is 100?
The article that explains the removal of a president
What is the 25th amendment?
Where the Supreme Court is detailed in the Constitution
What is Article III of the Constitution?
Employees of government units
What are bureaucrats?
A member of Congress
Who can introduce a bill?
Gerrymandering
What is the act of purposefully drawing voting district boundaries to favor a political party?
True or false: Constitution > Executive Order > Federal Law > State Law
False; an executive order has less authority than federal law
Questions asked to gauge a nominee's beliefs on important topics, usually solidifying or ending a candidate's opportunities
What is the Litmus test?
True or false: the federal government is the largest organization in the country
True
Where a bill goes after being introduced
What is a Committee in either house of government?
At least 25 years old, citizen for 7 years, live in the state you're running for
What are the qualifications for becoming a Representative?
A directive order from the President that has nearly the same power as a federal law
What is an Executive Order?
The purpose of judicial review
What is maintaining the checks and balances of the government by allowing the Supreme Court to rule a law or Executive Order unconstitutional?
The 15 advisers to the President that act as department heads and are appointed by the President
What is the Cabinet?
The amount of Congress that has to vote to end a debate
What is 3/5 or 60%?
At least 30 years old, citizen for 9 years, live in the state you're running for
What are the qualifications to be a Senator?
1. FDR's E.O. 9066, created WWII internment camps
2. Eisenhower's use of federal troops to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, AR
3. Obama's deferred action for parents of Americans (DACA)
4. Trump's repeal of Obamacare
Give an example of an Executive Order
Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, John G. Roberts, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Elena Kagan, and/or Neil Grosuch
Name 4 of the current Supreme Court Justices
Post office, Environmental Protection Agency, Selective Service
What are some Independent agencies?
This is a filibuster
What is 'talking a bill to death', or to run time in a period out by talking?
Raise and collect taxes, borrow money, set laws for naturalization and bankruptcy, declare war, and any power covered by the elastic clause (of implied powers)
What are the powers of Congress?
Chief of State, Chief Executive, Chief Administrator, Chief Diplomat, Commander in Chief, Chief Legislator, Chief of Party, and Chief Citizen
What are the chief roles?
Define stare decisis.
What is 'stand by decision', or the preference of the Court to stand by the decision of a precedent case?
Education, Defense, Homeland Security, State, Agriculture, Justice, Labor, Veterans' Affairs, Commerce, Energy, Health & Human Services, Housing & Urban Development, Interior, Treasury, or Transportation
What are the Government Departments?
The vote to end a debate
What is a cloture?