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Political Parties and Interest Group Influence
Famous Court Cases
The Three Branches
Economic Policy
America... The Mess
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The system in which two major political parties compete in the United States.
What is the two party system
100
The Court case that protected the right to symbolic speech in this case flag burning.
What is Texas vs Johnson
100
The executive branch uses this to check the legislative branch.
What is a veto
100
Federal Reserve Board’s regulation of the supply of money in circulation.
What is Monetary policy?
100
Daily Doubles: The “traffic cop” of the House that sets the legislative calendar and issues rules for debate on a bill.
What is the Rules Committee?
200
The Political party that is generally in favor of government regulation and increased government spending.
What is the Democratic Party
200
This case allowed women the right to choose.
What is Roe v. Wade
200
Daily Double:: When a bill is passed and congress adjourns before the bill is signed or becomes law,thus killing the bill.
What is a pocket veto
200
Legislation that helps a congressman's home state.Often viewed as a bad thing.
What is pork barrel legislation
200
Form of bias when two members of Congress agree to vote for each other’s bill.
What is logrolling?
300
The amendment prevents laws banning lobbying.
What is the first amendment right to free speech
300
This Case led to the integration of public schools.
What is Brown vs Board of Education
300
How the judicial branches checks the other branches.
What is Judicial review.
300
This government program takes up the majority of the federal budget.
What is Social Security
300
Girlllll Ted Cruz was called out for this.... nonstop Senate debate that prevents a bill from coming to a vote.
What is Filibuster?
400
placing a certain slant on a story to deflect negative public attention against a candidate or office holder.
What is a spin control?
400
This case is often considered one of the worst decisions in Supreme court history and helped spark the civil rights conversation.
What is Plessy vs Ferguson
400
The congress uses this to overturn a presidential veto.
What is congressional override or veto override.
400
The government agency collects and sorts taxes.
What is the IRS
400
When the journalists got the real T, these state laws protect them from having to reveal their sources.
What is Shield laws?
500
The party that originated in the early 1900s that lead to the regulation of the meat industry and government reform.
What is the progressive party?
500
The supreme court case led to the establishment of judicial review.
What is Marbury vs Madision
500
The judge who established the rule of judicial review making the judicial branch equal in power to the other branches.
Who is John Marshall
500
The maximum amount of debt that a government agrees to take on
What is a debt ceiling
500
The struggle of the bureaucracy with the complex rules and procedures required by bureaucratic agencies.
What is Red Tape?