AP gov’t final review

Four chapters:  Congress….Presidency…..Supreme Court…Federalism

Federalism

·         Defined

·         Unitary form

·         States vs. federal gov’t

·         Supremacy clause

·         McCulloch v. Maryland

·         Types of constitutional powers

·         Extradition

·         Funding/grants

Congress

·         All the numbers House  and Senate

·         Incumbents

·         Bicameralism

·         All about getting elected/reelected to Congress

·         Redistricting

·         Passing legislation

·         Constitutional powers of the House and Senate

·         Differences between the H and S

·         Filibuster

·         Influencing

Presidency

·         Qualifications

·         Facts about individual Ps since Eisenhower

·         Impeachment

·         Succession

·         Constitutional powers

·         Advisers (cabinet,…

·         Types of vetoes and overrides

·         Election cycles

·         War Powers Resolution

Courts

·         Litigants/standing/appellate jurisdiction/precedent/Amicus curiae/stare decisis/  original intent

·         Differences between  lower and upper courts

·         Specific justices appointed since Eisenhower

·         How cases get to and go through SCOTUS

·         Opinions

·         Marbury v. Madison

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25) amicus curiae brief

26) Judiciary Act of 1789

27) criminal

28) Marbury v. Madison

29) United States marshals

30) Federal magistrates

31) per curiam

32) a doctrine developed by the federal courts and used as a means of deciding some cases, principally those involving conflicts between the president and Congress

33) the states

34) Answers will vary.

35) lawsuits permitting a small number of people to sue on behalf of all other people similarly situated; reflects a broadened notion of standing to sue, and used a variety of areas

36) writ of certiorari

37) a decision without explanation issued by the Supreme Court

38) Judicial restraint is a judicial philosophy in which judges play minimal policymaking roles, leaving that duty strictly to legislatures. Judicial activism is a judicial philosophy in which judges make bold policy decisions, even charting new constitutional ground.

39) established the Supreme Court's power of judicial review over acts of Congress

40) implementation

41) Answers will vary.

42) The Supreme Court's work is so unique compared to the other federal courts that previous judicial experience is not that relevant or useful.

43) district

44) a requirement that to be heard a case must be capable of being settled as a matter of law rather than on other grounds as is commonly the case in legislative bodies

45) precedent

46) Amicus curiae

47) Diversity of citizenship

48) Constitutional courts are the district and appeals courts created by Congress in the Judiciary Act of 1789, while legislative courts are established by Congress for specialized purposes.

49) Class action

50) Original jurisdiction is jurisdiction of courts that hear a case first, usually in a trial and where the court determines the facts about the case.  Appellate jurisdiction is jurisdiction of courts that hear cases brought to them on appeal from lower courts, focusing on legal issues involved rather than the facts of the case.

51) appellate

64 questions

Cases:

            Where they are heard

Numbers

            Of SC justices

            Appeals ct justices

            Appeals cts

Terms:

            Political questions

            Litigants

            Judicial selection/appointment

amicus curiae

per curiam decision

writ of certiorari

judicial review

judicial activism

judicial restraint

judicial implementation

majority decision

concurring decision

dissenting decision

precedent

standing

stare decisis

jurisdiction

            original

            appellate

process of appointing judges/justices

Marshall Court

History

            Up to Civil War

            Civil War to Depression

            Depression to today

Courts

            Warren

            Burger

            Rehnquist

            Roberts

Individual justices

Conservative v. liberal justices

Marbury v. Madisons

Criminal v. civil law

State v federal courts

Process of cases getting to the court

Process of the court making decisions

Why the court chooses the cases it selects

Judiciary act of 1789

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64) FALSE

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66) FALSE

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84) interest group

101) Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld the right of government to regulate the business operations of a firm

102) independent regulatory agencies

103) plum book

104) standard operating procedures

105) Answers will vary.

106) Interstate Commerce Commission

107) government agencies that are not regulatory agencies or government corporations yet whose administrators are appointed by the president and serve at his pleasure; General Services Administration, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

108) regulations originating from the executive branch; used by presidents to control the bureaucracy

109) consist of individuals with technical policy expertise and those who are drawn to an issue out of intellectual or emotional commitments rather than material interests; these individuals work aside subgovernments, complicating their calculations and decreasing the predictability of those involved in subgovernments

110) A grant of power from Congress, guidelines issued by a regulatory agency, and a means of enforcement.

111) Street-level

112) Department of Defense

113) Civil Service

114) the authority of administrative actors to select among various responses to a given problem; greatest when standard operating procedures do not fit for a case

115) in charge of hiring for most agencies of the federal government

116) a hierarchical authority structure, task specialization, extensive rules, merit principle and impersonality

117) bureaucracy

118) a hiring and promotion system based on political reasons rather than on merit or competence; answers will vary

119) deregulation

Criticism of bureaucracies and what they do (note the various criticisms)

Definitions: 

            Bureaucracy

Bureaucrats

Regulation

Implementation

Guidelines

Civil service

Hatch Act

Pendleton Act

War Powers Act

IRA

Gov’t corp

Executive agency

Cabinet

Independent executive agencies

Federal employees

How congress and the president control bureaucracies

What bureaucracies are supposed to do

Max Weber

Policy implementation

ICC

VRA of 65

Munn vs Ill

History of bureaucracies

Patronage

22^nd amendment

25^th amendment

constitution and president

            powers

            qualifications

            framers

War Powers Resolution/Act

Veto

Clinton v NYC

Line item veto

President and

            Congress

            Legislation

            Public approval

            Bully pulpit

            Cabinet

How president manages his office

Impeachment

Congressional approval of

            Treaties

            Appointments

Vice president

Individual presidents we mentioned in class

OMB