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Civil Rights
Congress
POTUS
Bureacracy
SCOTUS
100
This is the difference between civil rights and civil liberties
What is civil liberties are found in nature and civil rights are gained usually by minority groups
100
This position is the tie breaker of the senate and calls the senate into session
What is Vice President (President of the senate)
100
This person's theory establishes that the president wears many hats and has the job of a domestic policy and foreign policy
Who is Wildavsky
100
This position is not appointed and is based on merit
What is civil servant
100
These are the two reasons for the legal system
What is conflict resolutions and social order
200
This approach to achieving ciivl rights supports working within the system and litigation
What is accommodation
200
True or False: The committee system is written in the Constitution
What is False
200
These are the three resources the president has
What is cabinet, VP, executive office of the president
200
This government corporation is consistently being saved by Congress because they do not make a lot of money
What is AMTRAK
200
These are the only two ways to get a case to the federal court system
What is the case is based on federal law, or you appeal based on US constl/statutory law
300
This tactic is argued between scholars as being either accommodation or agitation
What is legal boycott
300
Most bills do not make it out of this committee
What is standing committee
300
These are the three implied powers and responsibilities of the president
What is crisis manager, party leader, and executive orders/agreements
300
Which federal program significantly expanded the federal bureaucracy
What is the New Deal
300
This kind of law guarantees people a process
What is procedural law
400
This interest group was the driving force behind Brown v Board of education
What is NAACP
400
All taxing and revenue bills must start in this chamber
What is House of Representatives
400
These two presidents were significant during the "imperial presidency under attack" era
Who is LBJ and Nixon
400
These are three of the six characteristics of a good bureaucracy according to Max Weber
What is 1. Organization based on specialization, expertise, and division of labor 2. Organization set in a hierarchical manner, with identifiable chain of command 3. Standard operating procedures (SOP), the rules that employers know and follow 4. Good record maintenance 5. Professionalism on the part of employees 6. Merit-based (not “political”) hiring and promotion
400
This is the three leveled structure of both state courts and federal courts
What is district courts, appellate courts, and supreme courts
500
This act banned discrimination in housing
What is 1968 Civil Rights Act
500
These are the two steps to impeachment
What is House of Reps votes to bring impeachment up and the Senate holds a trial against the person being impeached
500
Professor Aughenbaugh refers to President Lincoln as the this instead of the great emancipator
What is the great constitutional breaker (or something along those lines because he broke the constitution at least 6 times)
500
This is the branch where most of the federal bureaucracy can be found
Where is executive branch
500
The New York highest court is referred to as this
What is Appellate court