Legislative
. The Constitution states that all revenue bills must originate here.
What is the House of Representatives?
In this role, the President serves as the leader of our nation's military and assists with the movement of US troops across the globe
What is Commander in Chief?
This court carries original jurisdiction in all cases concerning the Constitution of the United States.
What is the Supreme Court of the United States?
This type of policy would set emission standards for automobiles.
What is regulatory policy?
This supreme court case ensured the supreme court had the power to decide on the constitutionality of a law or executive action.
What is Marbury vs Madison?
This committee is created to reconcile differences in bills passed by the House and Senate.
What is a conference committee?
The president can influence this branch of government by denying reelection funds to those who oppose the President's policy.
What is Congress (The Legislative Branch)?
This branch of government is empowered to create new federal courts and specify the number of judges who will sit on them.
What is the legislative branch?
This agency would enact rulemaking authority by writing a regulation to support a clean water bill
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
This Foundational Document states "In republican government the legislative authority, necessarily, predominates. The remedy for this inconvenience is, to divide the legislative into different branches."
What is Federalist #51?
The boundary lines of congressional districts are drawn by this governing body.
What are state legislatures?
The president can influence this branch of government by instructing the DOJ to delay the implementation of a provision of the decision.
What is the judicial branch?
This doctrine affirms that courts are bound by prior decisions.
What is Stare Decisis?
This type of bureaucratic agency is created primarily to regulate industries in order to protect public interest.
What are independent regulatory agencies?
In this foundational document, Alexander Hamilton states that "energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government.
What is The Federalist 70?
This enumerated power permits Congress to stimulate the economy by hiring unemployed citizens
What is the power to pass a federal budget?
This refers to the authority of the President to withhold documents or information in his possession or in the possession of the Executive Branch from the Legislative or Judicial Branch of the government.
What is executive privledge?
This article of the Constitution describes the Supreme Court as the highest court of appeals.
What is Article III?
When interest groups work with members of the bureaucracy in order to create policy to implement congressional laws
What are iron triangles?
This foundational document states "A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the judges, as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body"
What is Federalist 78
Holding hearings for review of an executive agency’s activities is an example of this congressional action.
What is Congressional Oversight?
This occurs when the president does nothing with a bill prior to the end of a congressional session.
What is a pocket veto?
This refers to the idea that judges ought to freely strike down laws that are inconsistent with their understanding of the Constitution
What is judicial activism?
The President can dismiss these officers, but not commissioners of independent regulatory agencies.
What are Cabinet Secretaries?
This supreme court case ruled that unequal representation of citizens in legislative districts is unconstitutional and may be reviewed by the courts.
What is Baker V Carr?