Legislative Branch
Number of members are in the House of Representatives.
What is 435?
Formal qualifications to be President.
What are natural born citizen, resident for 14 years in US, and at least 35 years old?
Number of judges needed to bring case to Supreme Court.
What is Four - (Rule of Four)?
The system that the Pendleton Act of 1883 established would be used to hire federal bureaucrats
What is the merit system?
The GOAT of all SCOTUS cases
What is Marbury vs. Madison?
What is a filibuster?
Constitutional amendment limiting the number of terms of the President.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
Case that established judicial review.
What is Marbury vs. Madison?
The authority that allows federal agencies and departments to make regulations that carry the authority of the rule of law
What is rule making authority?
The name of the young man who challenged federal laws regulating gun possession in school zones.
Who is Lopez?
This group reconciles bills from the House and Senate.
Three positions the President can appoint.
What are ambassadors, cabinet members, and federal judges including Supreme Court justices.
Constitutional source of power for creation of courts. Hint: who has the power.
What is Congress?
This agency is responsible for the monetary policy of the United States.
What is the Federal Reserve Board?
The SCOTUS case that established that congressional and state legislative districts had to be equal in population to each other.
What is Baker vs. Carr?
Three ways a bill can die in Congress.
Name four Cabinet Departments
What is the Dept. of State, Dept. of Justice, Dept. of Defense, and Dept. of Treasury, Dept of Agriculture, Dept of Homeland Security, etc...
Filed by interest groups for court cases with opinions to try and sway the justices.
What is an amicus curiae brief?
The one part of the Bureaucracy that the President does not need Senate approval for any appointments.
What is the Executive Office of the Presidency (or Office of the White House)?
The Article of the Constitution, and Federalist paper that form the basis for the establishment of Judicial Review
What is Article 3, and Federalist 78?
The name of the senior most member of the minority party on a congressional committee
Who is the ranking member?
Two forms of congressional oversight on the bureaucracy.
What is committee investigations (subpoena power), withholding of appropriations (budget power), and creation or dissolving of federal agencies (legislative power).
Latin for "to stand by things decided" where the courts establish precedent.
What is stare decisis?
The Article and Section of the Constitution that gives the President power to nominate, "public ministers ... and other Officers of the United States."
What is Article 2 Section 2?
The one quality that Shaw vs. Reno ruled you are not allowed to exclusively form Congressional Districts based on.
What is race?