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?
What is Article III of the Constitution?
Define bureaucrats.
What are employees of government units?
A member of Congress
Who can introduce a bill?
Define 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
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?
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 advisors to the President that act as department heads and are appointed by the President
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?
Give an example of an Executive Order
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
Name 4 of the current Supreme Court Justices
Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, John G. Roberts, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Elena Kagan, and/or Neil Grosuch
Name an independent agency.
Post office, Environmental Protection Agency, Selective Service
Define filibuster
What is 'talking a bill to death', or to run time in a period out by talking?
Name one of the powers of Congress
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)
Name three of the President's eight chief roles
Chief of State, Chief Executive, Chief Administrator, Chief Diplomat, Commander in Chief, Chief Legislator, Chief of Party, and Chief Citizen
Define stare decisis.
What is 'stand by decision', or the preference of the Court to stand by the decision of a precedent case?
Name 5 of the Government Departments
Education, Defense, Homeland Security, State, Agriculture, Justice, Labor, Veterans' Affairs, Commerce, Energy, Health & Human Services, Housing & Urban Development, Interior, Treasury, or Transportation
The vote to end a debate
What is a cloture?