AP WPR 1
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| Filibuster | show 🗑
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| Executive Office of the President | show 🗑
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| show | The Constitutional power of congress to raise and spend money. Congress can use this as a negative or checking power over the other branches by freezing or cutting their funding.
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| Speaker of the House | show 🗑
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| show | Congressional efforts to make sure that laws are implemented correctly by the bureaucracy after they have been passed.
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| show | the system of civil servants and political appointees who implement congressional or presidential decisions; also known as the administrative state.
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| standing | show 🗑
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| show | the process through which the civil liberties granted in the Bill of Rights were applied to the states on a case-by-case basis through the 14th amendment.
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| show | Rights that guarantee individuals freedom from discrimination. These rights are generally grounded in the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment and more specifically laid out in laws passed by Congress, such as the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
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| show | The sphere of a court's legal authority to hear and decide cases.
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| Delegate | show 🗑
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| show | a member of congress who represents constituents’ interests while also taking into account national, collective, and moral concerns that sometimes cause the member to vote against the preference of a majority of constituents.
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| Politico | show 🗑
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| Substantive Representation | show 🗑
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| Descriptive Representation | show 🗑
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| Pork Barrel Spending | show 🗑
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| show | The relative infrequency with which members of Congress are defeated in their attempts for reelection.
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| show | An agreement between the executive branch and a foreign government, which acts as a treaty but does not require Senate approval.
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| Executive Orders | show 🗑
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| show | The right of the president to keep executive branch conversations and correspondence confidential from the legislative and judicial branches.
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| show | The theory that a president's ability to shape government policy depends more on his ability to convince members of Congress, bureaucrats, and citizens to do what he wants than it does on the formal powers conveyed to him by the Constitution.
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| show | Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution, which states that "executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America," making the president both the head of government and the head of state.
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| show | A method of oversight in which members of Congress constantly monitor the bureaucracy to make sure that laws are implemented correctly.
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| show | The Supreme Court's power to strike down a law or executive branch action that it finds unconstitutional
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| Living Constitution | show 🗑
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| show | The authority of a court to handle a case first, as in the Supreme Court's authority to initially hear disputes between two states. However, original jurisdiction for the Supreme Court is not exclusive; it may assign such a case to a lower court.
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| Appellate Jurisdiction | show 🗑
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| show | A two-sided court structure in which lawyers on both sides of a case attempt to prove their argument over their opponent's version of the case.
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