10 extra questions

Question 1

1. What term refers to the ability of the subcommittees go through bills line by line and propose amendments?

Answer 1

Markup ( check)

Question 2

2. The highest official in the House of Representatives is given what title?

Answer 2

Speaker of the house

Question 3

3. The presidency was created by Article ________ of the U.S. Constitution.

Answer 3

article 2

Question 4

4. According to the U.S. Constitution, if no one candidate receives a majority vote of the Electoral College, who chooses the president?

Answer 4

the U.S. House of Representatives

Question 5

5. The honeymoon period occurs at what point during the president’s time in office?

Answer 5

the first part of a president’s term.

Question 6

6. According to class lecture, the growth of the bureaucracy can be attributed to what factor(s)?

Answer 6

The need to regulate business

Responsibility of the government for the welfare of the people

Administrators who push for larger budgets and staff

The creation of new agencies to give policy issues a high profile

Question 7

7. What is a writ of certiorari?

Answer 7

A word from Law Latin, meaning “to be more fully informed.” If an appellate court has the power to review cases at its discretion, certioari is the formal instrument by which that power gets used. A writ of certiorari orders a lower court to deliver its record in a case so that the higher court may review it. The U.S. Supreme Court uses certiorari to pick most of the cases that it hears.

Question 8

8. How many justices sit on the U.S. Supreme Court today?

Answer 8

9

Question 9

9. An amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief provides a court with the view held by who?

Answer 9

an interest that is not a direct party to the case.

Question 10

10. Precedent, while not an absolute constraint on the courts, is needed to do what?

Answer 10

maintain legal consistency over time, so confusion and uncertainty about the law can be avoided.