Executive
The title given to the Head of the Executive Branch.
What is The President?
This person is tasked with leading The House of Representatives.
Who is Speaker of the House?
This name for lower level bureaucrats is used as a determinant for the fact that they are not appointed, but hired.
What is Civil Servant/ Street-Level Bureaucrat?
These three levels make up the entirety of The Federal Court system.
What is District, Court of Appeals, and Supreme Court?
This weapon of the courts is the only check they have over other branches.
What is Judicial Review/ Declare something unconstitutional?
This document details the purpose, as well as structure of the office of the President.
What is Federalist 70?
This person serves as an understudy for the Vice President, and leads the Senate in their absence. They are also are fourth in line in the presidential line of succession.
What is the President Pro-Tempore?
This congressional act states that all members of the bureaucracy must remove political and social bias because they work for the government. If this act is violated, it can lead to the immediate termination of said bureaucrat.
What is The Hatch Act?
This type of jurisdiction ensures that the court in which the incident occurred gets priority over hearing the case.
What is ORIGINAL jurisdiction?
This check of the president is used by congress, specifically the House of Representatives, as a way to limit the ability of enforcement by severing the budget.
What is power of the purse?
This hat of the president includes the power of the President as a Chief Diplomat.
What is National Security?
This chamber in the U.S. Congress has the honor of representing the States, while also being given the ability to hold impeachment proceedings and declaring war.
What is the Senate?
This group of high ranking bureaucrats bridge the gap between the president and bureaucrats, they are also experts in their particular realm of enforcement, and are appointed directly by the president.
What is Cabinet?
This court is reserved for the most important cases, and serves as the final authority over the Constitution of the United States.
What is Supreme Court?
This check on congress by the president serves as a passive aggressive way to deny legislation from passing.
What is a Pocket Veto?
Federalist 70 states that the reason for only having one executive is to make it easier for the public to potentially identify this in a president.
What is Corruption?
This type of representation is how the House of Representatives is structured and assigns a specific number of representatives per state based on population.
What is proportional?
This group of bureaucrats are not subject to any outside regulations and only have to answer to the president, not a cabinet member. Ex. NASA
What is Independent Executive Agency?
This process is how ALL Judges get to their positions, from the lowest to highest court.
What is appointment by President and confirmation by Senate?
This check on the courts allows for all U.S. presidents to leave a legacy behind and directly affects the decisions made by the courts.
What is appoint judges?
This U.S. President is given a negative reputation for his involvement with several spying attempts and withholding government secrets from the public.
Who is President Richard Nixon?
This agreement between large and small states at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia led to the creation of a Bicameral legislature.
What is the Connecticut Compromise?
A new way of enforcing a standard, that if done incorrectly, could lead to the opposite results and a lack of respect for the standard in question.
What is implementation?
This standard is set and used to answer cases with a similar factor/ end result.
What is Precedent?
This law passed in 1973, in response to public outcry over the handling of the Vietnam War, restricted the ability of the president's commander in chief power.
What is WAR POWERS Resolution?