Presidential Power
This power allows the president to reject a bill passed by congress, instead returning it to them.
What is a veto?
What is impeachment?
This term refers to law-like rules made by congressionally created agencies within the executive branch.
What are regulations?
Three of these government officials sit on each federal circuit court of appeals, though a trial court will feature just one.
What is a judge?
This term refers to a law that is still in process, and it will remain as such until it passes both chambers and it signed by the president.
What is a bill?
This type of arrangement may be made by the President or the president's deputies with foreign nations, though final approval is up to the senate
What are treaties?
Though rule-making regulators are in the executive branch, regulations may still be superseded by federal law created by this branch of government.
What is the legislative branch?
This group of the president's closest advisors includes the vice president, 15 other required secretaries, and whomever else the president wants to add.
What is the cabinet?
The 6th amendment provides all defendants the right to a court-appointed one of these - but only in criminal cases.
What is an attorney?
OR
What is a lawyer?
The speaker of the house needs extensive rule-making power because, unlike the 100 person senate, there are this many representatives - and they're all prima donnas
What is 435?
What is a pardon?
Article III of the constitution gives power to congress to establish the majority of which branch of government - a major check on it functions?
What is the judicial branch
This term refers to the overall network of agencies and departments whose clear, administrative hierarchical structure is intended to make decisions predictable.
What is bureaucracy
In this type of court case, the government represent neither party, the federal court system merely facilities resolution of the dispute.
What is a civil case?
These are the permanent subdivisions of congress that allow both chambers to work on several different issues at once.
What are standing committees?
Key limitations of this presidential power include the ability of future presidents to easily overturn, and the need to be based on existing law.
What are executive orders?
With this fraction of congress voting in favor in each chamber, a presidential veto may overturned
The primary purpose of this type of independent government agency is not making money, but rather to offer all Americans access to purchasing a particular good or service.
What is a government corporation?
What is a precedent?
This term refers to the use of each senator's individual privilege of unlimited debate to slow down senate business, sometimes for dozens of hours by just one senator.
What is the filibuster?
Federal law places some limits on the role of commander in chief, such as this time limit for deployment of troops without congressional approval.
What is 90 days?
This is the primary check that the judicial branch has over the other branches, and was set as precedent by the case Marbury v. Madison
What is judicial review?
This office helps prepare the federal budget, or at least the proposal for which the president delivers to congress each year.
What is the Office of Management & Budget (OMB)?
Each and every citizen may receive a summons to serve on a jury, whose primary job is to ensure that the people rather than the government determines this in each case.
What is guilt?
OR
What is the verdict?