Congress
This chamber of Congress is designed to represent all states equally.
What is the Senate?
This term refers to politicians who are completing their tenure in office after being voted out.
What is a lame duck?
In 1987, this body exercised its constitutional authority in rejecting President Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court.
What is the Senate?
Executive orders and signing statements are examples of this.
What are informal powers of the president
This court case established the Supreme Court's informal power of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The constitutional reason Franklin Roosevelt reported to Congress on December 8, 1941, that Japan had attacked America.
What is Congress' power to declare war?
In addition to signing and vetoing, this is the third option afforded to presidents upon the presentment of bills from Congress.
What is the pocket veto?
This Federalist paper set forth the rationale behind an independent judiciary.
What is Federalist #78?
The three points of an Iron Triangle
What is Congress, Bureaucracy, and Interest Groups
In this case, the Court struck down racially-based gerrymandering.
What is Shaw v. Reno?
This type of bill allows Congress to provide funding for government programs and agencies?
Appropriations bill
In 1942, Franklin Roosevelt used this implied power to establish relocation centers and detail American citizens.
What is an executive order?
Latin for "let the decision stand" this concept guides the judiciary to rely heavily on precedents.
What is stare decisis?
Daily Double
What is the main difference between a delegate and a trustee model of representation, and which chamber of Congress is more likely to use the delegate model?
In this case, the Court ruled, that courts could decide "Political Questions"
What is Baker v. Carr?
The legislative tactic where senators delay a vote by placing an informal objection to a bill or nomination?
What is a hold?
The justification for a single executive was outlined in this Federalist Paper.
What is Federalist 70?
Much like a president, a judge can be removed through this constitutional process.
What is impeachment?
The required minimum ages of Representatives, Senators, and The President
What is 25, 30, and 35 respectively
The ruling in this case regarding the 2000 Florida electoral recouont raised serious questions about the Supreme Court's legitimacy.
What is Bush v. Gore?
The other name for the Necessary and Proper Clause (Article 1 Section 8)
What is the Elastic Clause?
The terms or changes made by the War Powers Act
What is a change in the President's power to go to war, including that the president must notify Congress in 48 and congress must vote in 60 (or 90 with an extension) days.
This is the title of the head of the Department of Justice.
What is the Attorney General
Obama's failed Supreme Court nominee
Who is Merrick Garland
This Supreme Court decision opened the door to the "one person one vote" ideology.
What is Baker v Carr