Legislative Branch
The number of senators necessary to a approve a cloture motion
Role of president that involves them heading the armed forces of the United States
What is commander in chief?
The Judiciary’s ultimate check on other branches?
What is Life term?
This interest group was formed to promote equal rights for African Americans and headed by Pan-Africanist civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People(NAACP)
The term used to describe one's shaping of political views
What is socialization?
Committee that can be used to kill or speed up any bill by dictating the amount of time the House can spend debating it
What is the Rules Committee?
Article of the Constitution that outlines the constitutional guidelines and requirements for the President
What is Article II?
The process by which an appointee for the Supreme Court is approved
What is Senate approval?
This compromise decided that one may not ask another of their sexual orientation or preferences during military recruitment or service
What is “don’t ask, don’t tell”?
This type of poll measures how voters feel about an issue over time
What is a tracking poll?
When the House of Representatives is controlled by the Republican party and the presidency is held by a Democratic President
What is divided government?
Term that describes when the President makes a “hand-shake” agreement with a foreign leader as opposed to going through the senate to form a formal treaty
What is an executive agreement?
Federalist 70 states that the Judiciary lacks these two specific powers
What are the purse and the sword?
Amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, this piece of legislation in 1963 requires employers to pay men and women that same amounts for the same jobs
What is the Equal Pay Act?
The form of journalism that occurs close to an election and focuses on numbers and election predictions as opposed to the real issues
What is horse-race journalism?
Voting model when a congressmen votes based on their own judgement
What is the trustee model?
Term used to describe the bureaucracy’s role in implementing the often vague laws passed by Congress
What is bureaucratic discretion?
The document provided to the Supreme Court when a civilian feels that a lower court made the wrong decision
What is a writ of certiorari?
This piece of legislation was enacted to institute background check on handheld firearms
What is the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (The Brady Bill)?
This issue occurs when citizens existing outside of an interest group benefit from the actions/policies of that group without contributing to it financially or otherwise
What is the free-rider problem?
Money that must be included in budget because of existing law
What is mandatory spending?
System by which jobs are given to individuals based on their abilities as opposed to their connections and friendships
What is the merit system?
John Roberts practiced this principle in which justices act solely as “servants of the law”
What is judicial minimalism?
This portion of the second amendment insinuates the right for common citizens to bear arms
What is the “rights of the people” clause?
The “larger group” in question that a representative sample is attempting to consider is called this
What is “the universe”?