Legislative Powers
This is the upper house of Congress.
What is the Senate?
A proposed law in Congress is called this.
What is a bill?
The president is both the head of state and this.
What is the head of government?
The federal bureaucracy falls under this branch of government.
What is the executive branch?
This is the highest court in the United States.
What is the Supreme Court?
This branch has the power to declare war.
What is Congress?
The number of representatives each state has in the House is based on this.
What is population?
This is where most bills die before reaching a floor vote.
What is a congressional committee?
The president can issue this to create policy without congressional approval.
What is an executive order?
This system, replaced by the merit-based system, awarded government jobs based on party loyalty.
What is the spoils system?
This landmark case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This power allows Congress to remove a president from office.
What is impeachment?
Each state has this many senators.
What is two?
The House Rules Committee is often called this because it determines how bills reach the floor
What is the "traffic cop" of Congress?
This is the constitutional role that makes the president the leader of the military.
What is Commander in Chief?
This act created the merit-based civil service system.
What is the Pendleton Act?
Federal judges are appointed by this person and confirmed by this group.
Who is the president and the Senate?
The Senate must approve these presidential agreements with foreign nations.
What are treaties?
The structural design of the legislative branch.
What is bicameralism?
This is the tactic used in the Senate to delay or block a vote by prolonged debate.
What is a filibuster?
This is the term for a president who has lost significant political power, often after an election or in their second term.
What is a lame duck president?
This bureaucratic agency is responsible for enforcing federal environmental laws.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
This term refers to when courts interpret the Constitution based on the original intent of the framers.
What is originalism?
This check allows Congress to override a presidential veto.
What is a two-thirds vote in both houses?
The "necessary and proper" clause grants Congress this type of powers.
What are implied powers?
This vote is needed in the Senate to end a filibuster.
What is a cloture vote (60 votes)?
The president’s ability to reject a bill passed by Congress is called this.
What is a veto?
Bureaucratic agencies make these rules, which have the force of law.
What are regulations?
What is a concurrent opinion?
The president can check the judiciary by doing this.
What is appointing judges?
Passed over President Nixon’s veto, this law limits the president’s ability to commit U.S. troops to combat without congressional approval.
What is the War Powers Resolution of 1973?