Congress
The total number of seats in Congress.
What is 535?
Title/role of the president that allows him to make decisions regarding the military and armed forces.
What is Commander-in-Chief?
What is the rule of 4?
Title of the head of the department of Justice
What is the Attorney General?
This person is considered the "President of the Senate"
Who is the Vice President (Kamala Harris)?
When a member of congress helps out one of their individual constituents.
What is casework?
This is the maximum number of years a person may be President for according to the 22nd amendment.
What is 10 years?
This power is the primary check that the Judicial Branch has over the Legislative and Executive branches.
What is Judicial Review?
Under this, Government positions were given to political cronies or allies of the President, regardless of their actual experience in politics or with public policy.
What is the Spoils System?
This occurs when the Senate reaches the 60 votes necessary to end a filibuster.
What is cloture?
Those running for congressional office with this advantage have a 95% election rate.
What is incumbency?
This limits the President's ability to deploy troops for an extended period of time without the approval and consent of Congress.
What is the War Powers Resolution (Act)?
The Supreme Court might grant this to a case in a lower court that they would like to hear.
What is a Writ of Certiorari? (What is Cert?)
A part of the Bureaucracy that isn't part of a department, but must still report directly to the President.
What is an Independent Executive Agency?
What is a caucus?
The chief tax-writing committee in Congress.
What is the House Ways and Means Committee?
This occurs when the president does nothing for 10 days after receiving a bill from Congress, and Congress is adjourned at the end of those 10 days.
What is a pocket veto?
The number of circuit courts in the US Federal Court system.
What is 13?
The idea that government agencies, over time, move away from the ideals of the president and congress towards their own goals instead.
What is Bureaucratic Drift?
The ability to strike out certain parts of a bill, while having the rest become law. Some state governors have this power.
What is the line-item veto?
This tradition has allowed for judicial nominees to only be confirmed if the Senator from their state approves of them.
What is Senatorial Courtesy?
List the 4 instances of a President being impeached.
These two types of cases/scenarios would result in the US Supreme Court having Original Jurisdiction.
What are State v State, State v US Govt, any case involving an ambassador, foreign minister, consul.
The 15 cabinet departments.
What are the departments of State, Defense, Justice, HUD, HHS, Labor, Transportation, Commerce, Treasury, Energy, Veteran's Affairs, Education, Homeland Security, Interior, Agriculture?
List 3 Independent Regulatory Agencies
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