Congress
The two-house legislature created by our framers is called a?
bicameral legislature
What does the Twenty-Second Amendment do?
Prevents a president from serving more than two terms or 10 years in office.
What system of employment is based on qualifications, test scores, and ability, rather than party loyalty?
The Merit System
What is jurisdiction?
what is the process of allotting each state its congressional seats based on its proportional size?
apportionment
What formal body of presidential advisers has the heads of 15 executive departments on it.
The Cabinet
What closely resemble cabinets but have narrower areas of responsibility and perform services?
Independent Executive Agency
What is appellate jurisdiction?
The power vested in particular courts to review decisions made by lower courts.
What is gerrymandering?
The drawing of congressional districts to produce positive electoral outcomes for a particular political party.
What are powers that belong to the president that can be inferred from the Constitution?
Inherent powers
A government corporation is?
A business established by Congress to perform functions that private businesses can.
What did the judiciary do in Marbury v. Madison?
They used the power of judicial review or the first time.
Whose job is it to keep close contact with all members of their party, take vote counts on key legislation & act as a communication link within a party.
The Whip
What does the Executive Office of the President do?
It helps the president oversee the executive branch bureaucracy.
What is administrative adjudication?
A quasi-judicial process where a bureaucratic agency settles a dispute between two parties like the way courts resolve disputes.
What is the court called where cases begin?
A trial court.
What is a temporary committee that is made for a specific purpose?
A select committee
What is a signing statement?
What is administrative discretion?
The ability of bureaucrats to make choices concerning the best way of implementation concerning congressional or executive decisions.
What is the writ of certiorari?
A request for the supreme court to review the records of a lower courts case.