Passed in 1951, the amendment that limits presidents to two terms of office.
What is the Twenty-second Amendment?
100
Meeting of public officials with reporters.
What is a press conference?
100
A state-level method of direct legislation that gives voters a chance to approve or disapprove proposed legislation or a proposed constitutional amendment.
What is a referendum?
100
A nation's basic law. It creates political institutions, assigns or divides powers in government, and often provides certain guarantees to citizens.
What is a constitution?
200
When the president causes a bill to die.
What is the presidential veto
200
The events and scandal surrounding a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters that lead to the eventual resignation of a President under the threat of impeachment.
What is Watergate?
200
Television and radio, as compared with print media.
What is broadcast media?
200
The legal right to vote, extended to African Americans by the Fifteenth Amendment, to women by the Nineteenth Amendment, and to people over the age of 18 by the Twenty-sixth Amendment.
What is suffrage?
200
Rights inherent in human beings, not dependent on governments, which include life, liberty, and property.
What are natural rights?
300
collected though net income of individuals and corporations by the federal, most state, and some local governments?
What are Taxes?
300
they are advisors not mentioned in the Constitution, although every president has had them...
What are the Presidential Cabinet members?
300
When politicians set aside (money or time) for a particular purpose...
What is an earmark?
300
The belief that in order to support democratic government, a citizen should always vote.
What is the belief known as "civic duty?"
300
The idea that government derives its authority by sanction of the people.
What is the "consent of the governed?"
400
A policy document allocating burdens (taxes) and benefits (expenditures).
What is a budget
400
when Congress submits a bill to the president, who then lets it die by neither signing nor vetoing it.
What is a pocket veto?
400
Direct interaction with public officials for the purpose of influencing policy decisions...
What is Lobbying?
400
A system adopted by the states that requires voters to register well in advance of Election Day. A few states permit this on Election Day.
What is voter registration?
400
The proposal at the Constitutional Convention that called for equal representation of each state in Congress regardless of the state's population.
What was the New Jersey Plan?
500
The constitutional amendment that explicitly permitted Congress to levy an income tax.
What is the Sixteenth Amendment?
500
The ability of Congress to override a presidential decision.
What is a legislative veto?
500
When a movement for change starts with the people.
What is a Grass-roots movement?
500
Its vote usually reflects a popular majority, the winner-take-all rules give clout to big states.
What is the electoral college?
500
A court order requiring jailers to explain to a judge why they are holding a prisoner in custody.