The President's Cabinet is made up of the Secretaries from each Department, and this person who leads the Justice Department.
Who is the Attorney General
100
The Congress is made up of these two groups.
What are the Senate and House of Representatives
100
This is the number of Justices on the Supreme Court.
What is nine?
100
Elections used to choose the Presidential candidate for each major party.
What are primary elections?
100
When State Legislatures draw the lines of Congressional Districts to benefit one party over another.
What is gerrymandering?
200
The President's two legislative powers are to propose legislation and to do this.
What is veto legislation?
200
The number of representatives a state has in the House of Representatives is determined by this.
What is population?
200
The only court to exercise both original and appellate jurisdiction.
What is the Supreme Court?
200
The formal statement of the basic principles, stands on policy matters, and campaign objectives are outlined in this.
What is the party platform.
200
In the absence of the Vice President, this person serves as the presiding officer in the Senate.
Who is the president pro tempore?
300
The first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
What is the date of Congressional Elections?
300
To be a member of the House of Representatives, you must be 25 years old, must be a citizen for at least 7 years, and this final requirement.
What is live in the state you represent.
300
Majority, Concurring, and Dissenting are the three types of these issued by Supreme Court Justices after hearing a case.
What are opinions?
300
This is held to unify the party, adopt the party platform, and to nominate a party's candidates for President and Vice President.
What is a national convention?
300
This is organized on hierarchical authority, job specialization, and formalized rules.
What is a bureaucracy?
400
The President serves a term of this length.
What is 4 years?
400
Talking a bill to death.
What is a filibuster
400
Marbury v. Madison established this important power of the Supreme Court.
What is judicial review?
400
This is the practice of filling offices of the government with political supporters.
What is the spoils system?
400
This is how a bill becomes a law without the President's signature.
What is when the President doesn't sign it for 10 days when Congress is still in session?
500
This body has the sole power to try of judge the President in the case of impeachment.
What is the Senate?
500
This body has the power to impeach the President.
What is the House of Representatives?
500
The two types of inferior courts are "constitutional courts" and this kind.
What are "special courts"?
500
The process by which people formulate their political attitudes and opinions.
What is political socialization?
500
This is determined by having the Vice President and the majority of Cabinet memebers inform Congress in writing that the President is unable to perform his job.