Legislative
This occurs when different branches of government are controlled by different parties.
What is divided government?
Can the president declare wars?
No
This power allows the Judicial branch to examine laws, government actions, or policies to determine if they are consistent with the constitution.
What is Judicial review?
This is made up of interest groups, congressional committees, and a bureaucratic agency.
What is an iron triangle?
Can Supreme Court Justices serve for life?
Yes
This model describes when representatives act according to their own judgement.
What is the trustee model?
Can the president invade a middle eastern country without Congressional approval?
No
This case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v Madison?
A check on the bureaucracy where Congress can give or withhold funding to a program.
What is the power of the purse?
This bureaucratic agency manages highways, rails, and travel.
What is the Department of Transportation?
When lawmakers allocate federal government funds to programs that benefit local constituents.
What is pork barrel legislation?
These declarations made by the president have the force of law without congressional approval.
What are executive orders?
This court is the highest court in the land.
What is the basketball court above the Supreme Court?
A government organization that operates as a business to provide a service.
What is a government corporation?
Article I of the Constitution addresses this branch.
What is the legislative branch?
This can be used by the Senate to stop a filibuster.
What is cloture?
In this Federalist Paper, Alexander Hamilton argued that a single executive can make decisive decisions.
What is Federalist 70?
The principle of making legal decisions based on past precedents.
Stare Decisis
Groups of people, public officials, and interest groups that rally around an issue.
What are issue networks?
Congress can override a presidential veto with this amount of vote.
What is 2/3 vote?
This Supreme Court case addressed gerrymandering under the equal protection clause.
What is Baker vs Carr?
The president needs to respond to a bill in this amount of time before it becomes a pocket veto.
What is 10 days?
What is the correct order of the federal court system? (Hint: 3 levels)
District --> Appeal --> Supreme
The practice of hiring/promoting individuals on the basis of their political support, not merit.
What is patronage?
This is the belief that the role of a justice is to defend individual rights and liberties, even those not explicitly stated in the Constitution.
What is judicial activism?