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| What is it called when the authorities are shared with both chambers of congress? |
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| What are powers that only one branch of govt. does? |
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| What is drawing district lines to benefit one party or faction? |
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| What case said that districts must have roughly equal populations? |
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| What case said that districts can't be drawn to benefit or exclude a racial group? |
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| What case said that you can't be too biased against one party? |
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| Who are people who are already in congress? |
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| What are requests from constituents for information and help in dealing with govt agencies? |
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| What is it called when some members of congress gets elected only because the pres got elected? |
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| riding the presidents coattails |
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| What are parties refered to as? |
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| What is this example refered to as... "I gave money to NASA and they landed on mars. I then claim some of the credit." |
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| Individual credit- claiming for collective action |
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| What is the rule called when someone says "I second that notion..." |
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| What is it called when members want to run for reelection while there is still governing to do? |
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| What helps make a majority decision? |
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| What is an inclination to favor one group/ view/ opinion over alternatives? |
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| What is delaying a final vote on a bill? |
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| What is the longest serving senator refered to as? |
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| the President Pro Tempore |
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| What is it called when parties become increasingly ideologically cohesive and polarized, party members are more likely to delegate to leaders? In the absence of cohesion, leaders lose power. |
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| Conditional party Government |
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| What is it called when one party bans together? |
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| What is it called when two parties split furthur apart? |
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| Who help solve collective action problems Members of Congress face? |
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| What is it called when you can't deal with the issues at hand? |
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| What committee is a committee that exist from one Congress to the next? (Permanent) |
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| Committee and subcommittee chairs typically decide by the person who has served the longest. What is this called? |
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| What committee is a committee that often appear to deal with specific problems and then disappear? |
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| Select/Special Committees |
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| What committee is a committee that is drawn from both Chambers? |
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| What committee is a committee gathers important information and issues, but they do not report bills? |
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| What committee is a committee that handels particularly sensitive topics? |
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| Which committee resolves differences between the House and the Senate? |
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| What is it called when the subcommittee goes through a bill line by line? |
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| What is an example of log rolling? |
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| What is an issuing a summary of a bill's goals, provisions, and changes? |
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| What a rule that allows any germane amendments? |
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| What is having to do with the topic of the bill at hand? (Relevent to topic) |
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| What is a rule that only allows certain ammendments? |
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| What is a rule that doesn't allow any amendments? |
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| What committee is a committee that determines what the rules will be? |
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| What committee is a committee where rules are determined by a unanimous consent agreement? |
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| What is the procedure of ending a debate by taking a final vote? |
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| What is a meeting of the members of a legislative body who are members of a particular political party, to select candidates or decide policy? |
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| What is a vote that you can justify? |
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| Why is Congress known as an inefficient body? |
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| tends not to produce legislation |
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| What is the power to control appointments to office or the right to privileges? |
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| What is the president know as when he hands out federal government jobs? |
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| What is the president going public? |
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| What did the presidency become in the modern presidency? |
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| What is the President getting more involved in foreign policy? |
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| What is it called when we have a democratic president and a republican congress? |
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| Split government/ Split ticket |
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| What was it called when we got rid of the colors on the ballats and put all of the people running for office on one list? |
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| What is it called when the president is not sure that he can do something but he tries it anyways to see what Congress says? |
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| Testing the constitutional waters |
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| What act forced the president to inform Congrss withing 48 hours of committing troops in military action and forced the operatio to end within 60 days unless given an extension by congress? |
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| What was an attempt to regain some control over military affairs? |
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| Who can the president recieve by being Head of State? |
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| Ambassadors and other public ministers |
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| Whats another word for head of state? |
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| What are agreements between executives? |
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| What is an agreement for forein countries? |
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| What clause stated that the laws must be faithfully executed? |
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| What is giving the president some authority? |
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| principal agent relationship |
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| What is a way the president exerted control over executive branches? |
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| Executive orders/bureaucracies |
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| What states that States don't have to recognize other states exercises for gay marriage? |
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| What is it called when administration officials can't speak with Congress at all unless authorized by department heads? |
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| What is it called when all department communications to Congress that could affect future budgets must be pre-cleared by the presidents Office of Management and Budget to ensure that they are consistent with the presidents policy? |
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| What is it called when the president is the one making the decisions? |
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| What is it called when a president signs a bill into law , and the president impliments how they want to use this law? |
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| What is the idea that the president can choose which items of the bill he wants to veto? |
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| What is the amount of political power that the president has? |
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| Who is the advisor to the President |
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| What is it called when the president can act alone? |
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| What is it called when Congress made fun of bureaucracies for making stupid grants? |
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| The ministry of silly walks |
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| What are the people called when they are appointed by the president? |
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| What are bureaucratics that are experienced? |
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| What was it called when the president use to reward people with jobs because they were loyal to them? |
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| What is it called when you are responsible for someone and they are responsible for you? |
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| What are people experinced in their areas called? |
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| What is a term for duplicate or redundancy? |
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| What is hiring someone because the are more qualified for the job than another? |
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| What act put 10 percent of government jobs on the merit system and it could be extended by executive order? |
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| What is it called when people adopt the ideas of the agencies as their own? |
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| Bureaucratic/agency culture |
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| What are the unions composed of federal employees? |
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| What is a form of organization in the bureaucracies? |
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| What does each cabinet department have within itself? |
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| Which agency reports directly to the president? |
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| Independent Executive Agencies |
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| Which agency is independent of the presidency? |
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| Independent Regulatory Commisions |
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| Which agency is created by Congress to deliver services that a private corporation would otherwise deliver? |
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| Independent Government Corporations |
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| Which agency delegates implementation to lower-level governments or contracting nonprofit and/or private corporations? |
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| Indirect Administrations (not a bureaucratic agency) |
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| What is taking a bill and turning it into regulation? |
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| What are laws that go out of affect? They expire and they cannot continue to enforce the law. |
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| What is it called when you say how the law is going? |
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| What are small provisions of the law? |
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What forms when some agencies become beholden to interest groups? |
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(Beholden means owing thanks btw)
The Iron Triangle |
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What forms sometimes during the iron triangle? |
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| What are agencies with a very specific client? |
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| What are the kinds of cases that courts hear? |
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| What are original cases that start at the highest court? |
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| What is going against your country? |
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| What was an injunction that allows the court to force an official to do something? |
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| What is it called when federal judiciary can judge whether or not a state/ law/ policy is constitutional? |
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| What was it called when the US cut funding by 2.7% across the board? |
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| What is it called when th Supreme Court exercise judicial review over state laws? |
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| What is it called when the president appoints judges right before he has to leave office? |
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| Which court case asked to issue a writ of mandamus under a petition because they would turn in his commision? |
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| Which case said that Congress can charter a national bank and a state cannot tax a federal entity? |
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| Which case established an expansive view of the necessary and proper clause? |
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| Which case sort of resolved the fact that the national government had more authority than state because the Supreme Court lost some credibility? |
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| Which case limited bakers to 10 hour days or 60 hour weeks? |
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| What clause said that noone shall be denied of rights and abilities without due process? |
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| What did FDR implement to counteract the effects of the Great Depression from the amount of conservatives on the Supreme Courts? |
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| What is adding another person for every member that is over 70? |
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| What is not being receptive? |
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| Not ready to do something |
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| What was the case that had someone arrested for sitting in a railroad coach that was reserved for whites? |
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| What case said that separate but equal has no place in public schools? |
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| Brown v. Board of Education |
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| What is it called when the Supreme Court overturns or can overturn themself on a law? |
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| What is it called when the Supreme Court had cases appealed to them? |
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| What was it called when a case was appealed to the Supreme Court, and they had to hear it? |
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| What is it called when the Supreme Court gets to choose which cases they hear? |
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| What is filed by a petitioner against a respondent? |
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| What is it called when only four of the nine Supreme Court justices agree to grant the Writ if certuorari so that the case goes before the court? |
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| What is another term for the Writ if certuorari? |
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| What are briefs filed by interest groups, businesses, government agencies, etc? |
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| What is a term for "friend of the court"? |
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| Who represents the federal government and is the Chief autorny? |
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| What are the guidelines for lower level courts to follow? |
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| What says how the lower courts should make decisions? |
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| What directs courts to follow earlier precedents? |
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| What is an earlier event or action regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances? |
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| What is it called when you determine who can bring a case to court? |
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| What says which party should win? |
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| What goes beyond what the constitution says? |
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| What says to interpret the law as written? |
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| What explains rationale for decisions in such a way as to create doctrine? |
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| What opinion takes force of law? |
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| What opinion are the people of the minority who disagree with the courts decisions? |
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| What opinion says that the person agrees with the law, but not the rationale? |
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| What is a set of reasons or a logical basis for a course of action or a particular belief? |
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| What is how to choose judges? |
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| What is it calld when a president goes to a member of his party from the state and asks him for a list of names for who should take that position, and if there is nobody, then he will nominate them? |
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| What is it called when justices vote their preferences? |
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| What is it called when justices prefer to vote their preferences, but are constrained by many forces on their ideas? |
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