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Expenditures required by law, or mandated, for certain programs. (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and unemployment).
What is Mandatory Spending
What is Article II: Natural born citizen, 35 years old, and U.S. resident for 14 years.
A justice obtains their job by _______-
What is Presidential appointment and senate approval?
Made up of the the heads of the 15 executive departments, and can include the vice president and chief of staff, the _______advise the president on national matters.
What is the cabinet?
This case ruled that an appointed judge with a signed commission could sue if denied the job, and simultaneously, instituted the practice of judicial review stating the supreme court has only Appellate jurisdiction and can not institute a court order for Marbury.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
A power unique only to the House
What is Propose revenue tax bills (Power of the Purse), Impeachment, Pick the president if there is no majority winner.
Provide an example of a check on presidential powers.
What is impeachment and senate approval?
A ruling that firmly establishes a legal principle which are generally followed later as other courts consider the same legal logic in similar cases.
What is precedent?
_______divide a departments goals and workload.
FBI, CIA, ICE
What is Agency?
Using race as the only factor in drawing district lines violates the 14th amendment equal protection clause.
What is Shaw v. Reno?
Although not mentioned in the constitution, these smaller groups can better manage tough issues and draft more precise laws than the entire House or Senate.
What is committees
limits a president from serving more than two consecutive terms or a maximum of 10 years.
What is 22nd amendment?
The authority to create the lower federal courts was given to _________
What is congress?
Congress passed this act to prevent the constant reward to loyal party members creating the _______system
What is Pendleton Civil Service Act 1833 and Merrit system.
Established the "one person-one vote" principle.
What is Baker v. Carr?
Not so much a committee but more of a state of operation in which the House rules are relaxed, allowing longer debates among fewer people, member can vote as a group rather than in an individual roll call, and nonvoting delegates from U.S. territories can vote when present.
A measure that allows a president to eliminate a line of spending from an appropriations bill or budgeting measure, allowing the president to veto part, but not all of a bill.
What is Line-Item Veto?
When judges strike down laws or reverse public policy, they are said to be exercising _________
What is Judicial activism?
Committee hearings to assure that the agencies and departments charged with carrying out the ideas in the law are in fact doing so, and doing fairly, is an example of Congressional ______.
What is oversight?
This foundational document defends an independent judiciary, its power of judicial review, and life terms of justices.
What is Federalist No. 78?
Congress also contains nongovernmental groups of like-minded people that unite around a particular belief. These groups gather to elect their respective leaders, to set legislative agendas, and to name their committee members.
What is Caucuses?
Powers of the president that are not explicitly listed but are nonetheless within jurisdiction of the executive
What is inherent powers?
Name the types of opinions the Supreme court can give.
What is concurring opinion, majority opinion, and dissenting opinion?
Consists of a board of members instead of one head to ensure that a president cannot completely replace all members. This allows for neutrality in decision making on their regulatory and rule making authority.
What is Independent Agencies and Regulatory Commissions?
Fears arose because skeptics saw the presidency as a potential "fetus of monarchy". One delegate, Alexander Hamilton, tried to allay such fear by arguing that a single executive is less likely to amass inappropriate powers and more likely to be closely watched and suspected.
What is Federalists 70.?