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Government Final
Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Indirect form of democracy, placing political decision making at least one step away form the people | Republic |
| a small group pf people runs the government | Oligarchy |
| Power to carry out, enforce and administer the law is known as | Executive Power |
| Branch which power involves the authority to interpret laws and settle disputes | Judicial |
| What is "General Welfare"? | public good |
| Anti-federalists believed that representative government | Could only exist in a small territory |
| Has the ultimate authority to decide whether or not a federal law or action is constitutional | Supreme Court |
| Supreme court applies the Constitution to modern day cases in a process called | Judicial Interpretation |
| Name of the group of executive department heads who advise the president | Cabinet |
| What power does the executive branch have to check the legislature? | Veto |
| Laws made by the will of the people come through which body of the US Government? | Congress |
| Number of Senators from each state | Two |
| How many years do each Senate term last for? | Six |
| Practice of drawing district boundaries to the political advantage of the party in power is known as | Gerrymandering |
| Term that applies to the 20 permanent committees of the House | Standing Committees |
| What adds an unpopular provision to a popular bill that is likely to pass? | Rider |
| What can a president issue without congressional action? | Executive Order |
| Court that hears the vast majority of cases in the United States | State Courts |
| Type of jurisdiction that is held by a court of reviews proceedings of a lower court | Appellate Jurisdiction |
| Court that serves as the trial court of the federal system | District Courts |
| Number of Justices on the Supreme court today | Nine |
| Written arguments of each side to an appeal are called | Briefs |
| An order seeking review of a lower court case is called | writ of certiorari |
| Majority opinion is one that is signed by how many members of the Supreme Court? | Five |
| Meeting of party members to endorse candidates for office and select delegates is called | Caucus |
| An organization that donates money to candidates and political parties is called | PAC - political action committee |
| Economic and political system in which government owns all the property and controls economic planning is known as | Cummunism |
| An economy that combines elements of traditional, market, and command economic systems is called | Mixed |
| What system was developed from the ideas of Karl Marx? | Communism |
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