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| A totalitarian government seeks to control not only all economic and political matters but the attitudes, values, and beliefs of its population, erasing the distinction between state and society. The citizen's duty to the state becomes the primary concern of the community, and the goal of the state is the replacement of existing society with a perfect society. |
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| opposing senators just talk and talk until the end of the session, there is no time limit for talking... to force negotiation |
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| When people want to avoid a filibuster. It forces a vote in a debate, 3/5 to vote to close the debate... limites it to 30 hrs. |
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| After all, it started here almost 200 years ago when Governor Elbridge Gerry pushed to create one district with such wiggly borders that it reminded people of a salamander. At the time, this was seen as such an egregious abuse of power that the people voted Gerry out of office the next year! |
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| An agreement made between the executive branch of the U.S. government and a foreign government without ratification by the Senate. |
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Reapportionment Act of 1929:
permanent limit of 435 |
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| Due process (more fully due process of law) is the principle that the government must respect all of the legal rights that are owed to a person according to the law of the land, instead of respecting merely some or most of those legal rights. |
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| Certiorari (IPA: [ˌsɚʃioʊ('rɛri, 'rɑri)]) is a legal term in Roman, English, Philippine and American law referring to a type of writ seeking judicial review |
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| so that they can win the next election and stay in office. Thus they are constantly concerned with the electoral process. |
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| the right of the judicial branch to determine the constituionality of acts and actions of the other two branches |
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| forbids that a defendant be tried twice for the same crime on the same set of facts. |
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| consists of the popularly elected representatives who formally select the President and Vice President of the United States; since 1964 the electoral college has had 538 electors.[1] In 2008, it made this selection on December 15. The Electoral College is an example of an indirect election. |
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| individual appointed to argue for the Government of the United States in front of the Supreme Court of the United States, when the government is party to a case. |
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| a law that retroactively changes the legal consequences of acts committed or the legal status of facts and relationships that existed prior to the enactment of the law. |
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| legal principle in the United States, under constitutional law, that holds that evidence collected or analyzed in violation of the defendant's constitutional rights is inadmissible for a criminal prosecution in a court of law. |
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| means of bringing a bill out of committee and to the floor for consideration without a report from a Committee and usually without cooperation of the leadership. |
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| refer to the standard to which a grand jury believes that a crime has been committed. This term comes from the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution: |
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| determines whether there is enough evidence for a trial. |
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