The Bureaucracy
A form of organization that operates through impersonal, uniform rules and procedures
What is bureaucracy?
Which office helps the president prepare the annual federal budget?
Office of Management and Budget
Provides legal advice to the president, enforces federal laws, represents the United States in court, operates federal prisons
What is justice?
What is the highest court in the federal judicial system?
Supreme Court
A detailed statement of the facts of the case supporting a particular positions by presenting arguments based on relevant facts and citations from previous cases
What is a brief?
Executive influence
appointing the right people, issuing executive orders, affecting the agency's budget, reorganization of the agency
What office is the advisory and planning agency to combat the nation's drug problem?
Office of National Drug Control Policy
Collects federal; revenues, pays federal bills, mints coins and prints paper money, enforces alcohol, tobacco and firearm laws
What is treasury?
Decide civil and criminal cases arising under the Constitution and federal laws or treaties
What is district courts?
A majority of the justices agree on the decision and its reasons
What is majority opinion?
Civil Service Act of 1883, passed after the assassination of Garfield
What is Pendleton Act
What does the Official of Policy Development do?
gives the President domestic policy advice
Provides agricultural assistance to farmers and ranchers, inspect food, manages national forests
What is agriculture?
A testof ideological purity toward a liberal or conservative stand on certain issues such as abortion
What is "litmus test"?
Term begins on the first Monday in October and generally lasts until June or July the following year
What is Supreme Court?
Four basic types the federal bureaucracy is divided into
What is cabinet departments, independent executive agencies, independent regulatory agencies, and government corporations?
Provides administrative services to personnel of the EOC and gives direct support services to the president
What is office of administration?
Grants patents and trademarks, conducts the national census, promotes international trade
What is commerce?
What does the Courts of Appeals do?
Decide appeals from the United States district courts and review decisions of federal administrative agencies
An order by the Court directing a lower court to send up the records of a case review
What is writ of certiorari?