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Book'em
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provides the public with information
What is the media
100
prime function of Congress is
What is lawmaking
100
how many Electoral College votes do you need to be the President
What is 270
100
large organization that is structured hierarchically to carry out specific functions
What is bureaucracy
100
judge-made law based initially on the prevailing custom and eventually on legal precedent.
What is Common law
200
allowed newspapers to publish in volume at lower costs
What is development of the high-speed rotary press
200
Article I, Section 8. This clause allows Congress to make laws that are deemed necessary to carry out the enumerated powers.
What is Necessary and Proper Clause
200
Head of State, Chief Executive, Commander in Chief, Chief Diplomat, Chief Legislator are all examples of what
What is THE MANY ROLES OF THE PRESIDENT
200
views bureaucracy as a hierarchically organized model with formal rules and regulations. Power flows from the top down.
What is The Weberian model
200
U.S. district courts and specialized federal courts, intermediate U.S. courts of appeals, and the U. S. Supreme Court are examples of?
What is Types of Federal Courts
300
Broadcasting is increasingly tailored to specialized audiences, a development called
What is narrowcasting.
300
How many members are in the House, and how many in the Senate and how long do they stay in office?
What is The House has 435 members. In the House, members are elected from essentially equally populated districts, and their term is two years. The Senate has 100 members, two elected from each state. Senators serve a six-year term.
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by going over the heads of Congress and the political elites and taking their cases directly to the people in an effort to generate popular support for their proposals.
What is “Going Public
300
Today there are about 2.7 million civilian employees of the federal government, what are the two biggest employers?
What is The two biggest employers are the U.S. Postal Service, with almost 800,000 workers, and the Department of Defense, with more than 650,000 civilian staff.
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Begins the first Monday in October and usually adjourns in late June. The nine justices must decide which cases to accept during the term, schedule oral arguments, read the legal briefs from all parties in the case, meet in conference to discuss the issues involved in each case, draft opinions of the Court for each case, and finally write the final opinions for each case.
What is Supreme Court
400
a useful tool for voters to obtain information about elections
What is the internet
400
the practice of drawing lines to favor one party over the other. This may be done by packing the other party’s supporters into the fewest number of districts to ensure that many of their votes will be wasted
What is gerrymandering
400
The concept of this is important because without this power there would be little that could be done to control criminal behavior by a top leader
What is impeachment
400
Amtrak, is an example of what
What is a Government Corporations
400
This allows a senator from the nominee’s state to veto a judicial appointment by way of a
What is “blue slip.”
500
enabled telephone companies to enter cable businesses and other communications markets, resulting in the growth of media and communications conglomerates.
What is Telecommunications Act of 1996
500
When a member trades his or her vote on a particular bill with other members in exchange for their votes on other legislation, the member is engaging in a tactic known as
What is logrolling
500
In August of 1974 President Nixon resigned and was replaced by Ford who did Ford select as his Vice President
What is Nelson Rockefeller
500
a three-way alliance among legislators, bureaucrats, and interest groups that seeks to make or preserve policies that benefit their respective interests. Advocates of this theory usually believe that special interests have too much influence.
What is iron triangle
500
How does the public check the Courts?
What is Although the public does not have a direct influence on the selection of members of the judiciary, it does have an indirect influence through the selection of the president