Exam 2
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- Executive Departments and independant agencies can be creatd or abolished by
- Congress
- Congress and states can reverse a supreme courts interpretation of the constitution by:
- Writing new legislation.
- Judicial self-restraint:
- The self-imposed limitation on judicial power by judges deferring to the policy judgments of elected branches of goverment.
- Filibuster:
- Process where a single Senator can "talk a bill to death"by unlimited debate:
- Judicial Activism:
- The making of a new law through judicial interpretation of the Constitution.
- Common Law:
- A cumulative body or decisions based on custom or precedent.
- The concept of divided goverment:
- Congress having a majority party that is different from the party of the president.
- Since the turn of the century, the presidency has grown because:
- People have looked to the president for leadership in getting the government to provide more services
- Cases in whic the death penalty is a possible punshiment are called:
- Capital cases.
- Seniority System:
- System which allows elected officals with longest tenure to automatically serve as committee heads.
- Judicial Restraint:
- Philosophy whereby presidents claim the inherent right to with hold information from congress or the judiciary.
- A judicial philosophy under which judges attempt to apply the values of founders to current issues is called:
- Original intent.
- Divided Goverment:
- When a republican president faces a democratic congress or vice versa.
- Pocket Veto:
- Presidents power to kill a bill by taking no action.
- Whips:
- Legislative leaders who round up party members for important votes.
- Congress does most of its work:
- In committees and subcommittees.
- Cloture:
- Procedure allowing a filibuster end by 3/5 vote of the Senate.
- Events in Europe , the Middle East ,and the Persian Gulf show that the war powers act:
- May keep US troops from extended involvement overseas.
- The Supreme Court power or judicial review is the power to:
- Declare acts of congress unconstitutional, executive branch unconstitutional,state,local and federal government unconstitutional.
- Judicial activism:
- Philiosophy whereby the Constitution is boldly intepreted to effect social and political questions.
- The idea behind the personal presidency is that:
- People expect the president to convince the government to give them what they want.
- A meeting by members of a political party to choose a committee head would be called:
- Caucus
- Bureaucrat:
- Public Adminstrator
- Tthe iron triangle or subgoverment refers to:
- Interaction between bureaucracy,interest groups, and congressional committees.
- A senator manages to get 10 billion appropriated to build a defense base in his home state. This is called:
- Pork barrel Politics.
- Civilian Supremacy:
- Principle of presidential authority over the military.
- Stewardship theory or trustee of the people.
- Theory that elected officials vote their conscience if the peoples wishes are not clearly known.
- Gridlock in congress is most often explained by:
- The problems of a divided government.
- The constitution provides explicit authority for the president to:
- Negotiate treaties.
- The Supreme Court ruling that officially established judicial review as the most important judicial check on congressional power.
- Marbury vs. Madison
- In deciding cases and applying the law, judges often rely on the principle known:
- Stare decisis.
- List the Officials Roles of a president: Hint: CLADS
- Commander on Chief, Chief Lesiglature, Chief Ambassdor, Chief Diplomat, & Chief of State. Also the Popular Leader & The Political Party Leader.
- The growing size of the executive branch has:
- Made the president more powerful.
- Stare Decisis:
- The legal principle that previous decisions should determine the outcome of current cases.
- Bureaucracies have a natural tendency to:
- Gradually expand.
- Grand Jury
- Body of individuals convened to determine if enough evidence exists to warrant a trial
- Laissez-faire-capatilism:
- Philosophy that goverment should interfere as little as possible with business.
- Spoils System:
- Practice where victorious politicias reward their followers with jobs.
- The real power in a bureaucracy comes from:
- the discretion and expertise of bureaucrats who interpret policy.
- The War Powers Resolution was an effort to:
- Limit the power of the president to start military action and requir the president to consult with congress about any military action.
- The most democratic body of our goverment is:
- House of Representatives.
- Executive Privilidge:
- Doctrine where the president claims the inherent right to withhold information from Congress or the Judiciary.
- Gerrymandering:
- Drawing lines of electoral districts in order to favor one party/group over another.
- In the course of 200 years the courts have gained in legitimacy:
- The final authority on the law and the Constitution.
- Goverment bureaucracy is considered by many people to be:
- Incomplete and Unresponsive.
- Whistle Blower:
- Expose evidence of waste, fraud and abuse.