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This chamber of Congress has 435 members and is based on population.
What is the House of Representatives?
This role involves the president acting as the head of the military.
What is Commander-in-Chief?
This is the highest court in the United States.
What is the Supreme Court?
This branch can veto laws passed by Congress.
What is the executive branch?
This group of advisors includes the heads of executive departments.
What is the Cabinet?
This clause allows Congress to pass laws needed to carry out its enumerated powers.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
This directive allows the president to manage operations of the federal government without Congress.
What is an executive order?
This principle allows courts to declare laws unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
This branch confirms presidential appointments.
What is the legislative branch?
This type of agency operates independently from the executive departments.
What are independent agencies?
This type of committee works out differences between House and Senate versions of a bill.
What is a conference committee?
This term describes the president’s ability to negotiate treaties with other nations.
What is chief diplomat?
This case established judicial review in the U.S.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This process allows Congress to remove a president from office.
What is impeachment?
This term describes the close relationship between Congress, agencies, and interest groups.
What is an iron triangle?
This is the presiding officer of the House of Representatives.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
This presidential power allows refusal to sign a bill into law.
What is a veto?
These courts are the first to hear most federal cases.
What are district courts?
This action allows Congress to pass a law even after a presidential veto.
What is overriding a veto?
This part of the executive branch is responsible for carrying out and enforcing federal laws.
What is the federal bureaucracy?
This power of Congress allows it to formally accuse a federal official of wrongdoing.
What is impeachment?
This occurs when the president takes no action on a bill and Congress adjourns within 10 days.
What is a pocket veto?
This standard requires courts to follow precedents set by previous decisions.
What is stare decisis?
This check allows courts to limit both Congress and the president.
What is judicial review?
This concept describes the loose, issue-based relationships replacing iron triangles.
What are issue networks?