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Maria YWPA random
Maria M. VocabWords Random
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Refers to a legislature composed of two houses or chambers | Bicameral |
| Federeal grants-in-aid that are directed at broad policy areas. such as crime or community development. Generally, states and localities have greater discretion in determining how these funds may be allocated with categorial grants. | Block grants |
| A large, complex administrative organization based on hierarchical structure, with written rules and regulations; its purpose is to implement policy. | Bureaucracy |
| Collectively, the fifteen executive departments that administer the policies of the federal goverment. | Cabinet departments |
| Federal grants-in-aid that are directed at a specific state or local govermental project. | Categorial grants |
| A meeting of party members. Although used in some twenty states, the Iowa caucuses are particularly important because they represent the start of the presidential election year. | Caucuses |
| Term applied to federal employees who are hired according to the merit principle (that is, based upon their abilities or qualifications for a federal job, not thir political connections) | Civil service |
| The senate rule that determinates a filibusters requiring sixteen or more senators to sign a petition, then three-fifths vite of approval, and then a one hour debate limination per senator. | Cloture |
| The presidential role that places him or her in control of the U.S armed forces, as stipulated in the Constitutional privilege in numerous military interventions overseas, with some leading to full-scaie wars. | Commander-in-chief role |
| Those powers that can be (exercised by both the national and state/local governments. Examples include taxation, creation of courts, protection of civil rights, borrowing and spending money, and the chartering of banks oe corporations. | concurrent powers |
| A political system in which the states have ultimate power and the central goverment is relatively weak. | confederation |
| A joint House-Senate committee whose purpose is to reconsile different versions of a bill. | conference committee |
| Federalism that views the relationship between that states and the fedreal government as a marble cake- that is, one overlapping powers and reponsibilites. | cooperative federalism |
| the return of political power back to the states | Devolution |
| The house may use the discharge method whereby an absolute majority- 218 members- sign a petition requesting that the bill be forced out of committee for consideration on the floor. | discharge petition |
| The doctrine, now outmoded, that the federal government's relationship to the states was akin to a layer cake, in that powers and resposibilities of the two levels of government could clearly separated. | Dual federalism |
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