Executive
The commander in chief of the military.
Who is the President Of the US?
In this court case, it was established that racial gerrymandering is unconstitutional, even if in pursuit of equality.
What is Shaw Vs. Reno?
This article in the Constitution established the Judicial Branch
What is Article III?
The name of a law making body made of 2 houses; Congress is made up of the Senate and the House Of Representatives
What is a Bicameral Legislature?
This is the name for the network of Congressional committees, bureaucratic agencies, and interest groups that influence policy.
What is the Iron Triangle?
According to the 22nd amendment, the maximum number of terms a president can serve.
Two Terms
Powers that are named specifically in the Constitution
What are enumerated powers?
When a court has jurisdiction to review cases and issues originally tried in lower courts.
What is an appellate court?
This established the budget office that advises congress on the consequences of budget decisions and revenues.
What is the Congressional Budget act of 1974?
The merit system by which federal bureaucrats are chosen.
What is the Civil Service System?
An authority of the president to refuse to sign a bill passed by Congress.
The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.
What is Gerrymandering?
The principle of relying on past precedents to make new decisions.
What is a stare decisis?
This Supreme Court Case established that redistricting is not a subject to court review under the 14th amendment's equal protection clause.
What is Baker Vs. Carr?
Congress's primary power for controlling agencies by restricting or increasing the funding.
A presidential Order that does not need approval by Congress.
What is an executive order.
This power allows Congress to ensure executive agencies are implementing laws as intended.
What is oversight?
This case established that the fourth amendments protection against unreasonable searches and seizures applies to the states through the fourteenth amendment.
What is Mapp V. Ohio?
These powers are not explicitly stated in the Constitution but are granted through the "necessary and proper" clause.
What are implied powers?
This congressional action that involves investigating the performance often to check their power?
What is oversight?
What is Federalist 70 about?
Hamilton arguing for a single and energetic executive branch.
This clause provides the basis for Congress's implied powers
What is the necessary and proper clause?
This "friend of the court" brief is filed by an interest group to influence a Supreme Court decision.
What is an Amicus Curiae Brief?
This Supreme Court Case held that majority-minority districts created under the Voting Rights act of 1965 could be challenged if race was the only factor.
What is Shaw Vs. Reno?
The primary function of Bureaucracy, which involves translating laws passed by Congress into specific operation rules.
What is policy implementation?