Congress
Number of members in the House and Senate respectively
What is 435 and 100?
The branch of the president
What is executive branch?
Made up of all the agencies through which the federal government operates
What is Federal Bureaucracy?
The number of justices in the Supreme Court
What is 9?
Changed the presidential term start date from March 4 to January 20 and congressional terms to January 3
What is 20th Amendment?
The plan that wanted equal representation for states in congress
What is New Jersey (Small-state) plan?
The person who exercises supreme command and control over an armed force or a military branch
What is Commander-in-Chief OR President
The languages that the word Bureaucracy is derived from
What is French and Greek?
A group of people selected to sit on a jury that decide whether the prosecutor's evidence provides probable cause to issue an indictment.
What is Grand Jury?
If the president is removed, passes away, or resigns, the vice president will become president
Representation about accountability
What is Agency (Substantive) Representation?
The President who established the FDIC to restore feelings of security lost during the Great Depression; also the longest serving president
What is FDR?
Three-way relationship between congressional committees, bureaucratic agencies, and interest groups that shapes policy
What is Iron Triangle?
The current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
What is John G. Roberts Jr.?
Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18
What is 26th Amendment?
Acts as Grand Jury during impeachment of president
What is The House of Representatives?
The President during WW1 who wrote the 14 points in advocation for the League of Nations, although congress voted against the US joining it
President Woodrow Wilson
Bureaucrats create rules and regulations. This is called __________
What is Administrative Law?
The length of the term for a Supreme Court Justice
What is Lifetime?
Electoral college votes separately for president and vice president
What is 12th Amendment?
Organizations in charge of helping Congress with oversight budgetary issues
What is Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and General Accountability Office (GAO)?
(name at least one for the points)
Repeal of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; added to limit presidential war affairs after President Nixon started bombing Cambodia
What is War Powers Act of 1973?
The transfer of government-owned assets, services, or functions to the private sector to improve efficiency, reduce public debt, and foster innovation
What is privatization?
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Limits a president to two elected terms (maximum 8 years).
What is the 22nd Amendment?