The Three Branches
What is the Legislative Branch?
What is Article 1?
The chief executive
Who is the president?
The ability of the courts to review cases to make sure they are constitutional
What is judicial review?
What are articles?
The article that created the Judicial Branch
What is Article 3?
the main role of congress when it comes to laws
What is making the laws?
The power the president has to select members to the cabinet. The senate confirms these selections
What is appointing/nominating power?
The 1803 supreme court case that established the principle of judicial review
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The principle, established by the Baron de Montesquieu, that created the different branches of government
What is separation of powers?
The role of the president as the head of the army
What is the Commander in Chief?
the legislative branch is also known as this
What is Congress?
Presidential decrees with the weight of law
What are executive orders?
the name for the decisions of the supreme court
What are opinions?
The act of removing a public official from office
What is impeachment?
This clause allows congress to stretch their powers
What is the necessary and proper/elastic clause?
Most bills introduced in Congress die in this stage
What is committee?
The amendment that limits the president to two terms
What is the 22nd amendment?
The written appeal to the supreme court to hear a case on appeal
What is the Writ of Certiorati?
Congress can overturn a presidential veto by this fraction
What is 2/3?
The principle that the governments at the national and state level share both the same structure and powers
What is federalism?
A permanent committee that deals yearly with certain topics
What is a standing committee?
When the president recommends legislation, communicates with congress he is acting in his role as this
What is chief legislator?
The territory and type of cases over which a court has legal authority
What is jurisdiction?
The War Powers act of 1973 limits the power of this branch of government from using the military without the consent of the legislative branch
What is the executive?