AP Government 2014-2015
Unit IV Vocabulary: Institutions
CONGRESS
“Advice and consent”
Article I, Section 8
Appropriations committee
Bicameral
Bill
Bipartisan
Case work
Caucus (in Congress)
Closed rule
Cloture
Coattails
Commerce clause
Committee chairs
Concurrent resolutions
Conference committee
Congressional Budget Office
Congressional staffs
Constituent
Contract with America
Delegated powers
Discharge petition
Divided government
Earmarks
Elastic clause
Enumerated powers
Expressed Powers
Filibuster
Franking
Germaneness Rule
Gerrymandering
Grid lock
House Rules Committee
Imperial president
Implied powers
Incumbent
Incumbency advantage
Joint committee
Joint resolutions
Legislative oversight
Legislative veto
Logrolling
Majority leader
Majority/minority whip
Majority-minority districts
Markup
Minority leader
Nec and Proper Clause
Open rule
Oversight hearings/ oversight
Partisan/partisanship
Party line vote
Plurality
Pork barrel
Power of the purse
President pro tempore
Reapportionment
Recess appointments
Redistricting
Revenue Bills
Rider
Roll call vote
Safe districts
Select committee
Senate Judiciary Committee
Seniority system
Simple resolution
Speaker of the House
Special session
Split Ticket/Ticket splitting
Standing committee
Subcommittees
subpoena
Substantive vs. descriptive rep.
PRESIDENT
22nd amendment
Affordable Care Act
Bully pulpit
Cabinet
Chief of Staff
Coalition
Coattails
Commander in chief
Electoral College
Executive agreements
Executive office of the president
Executive Orders
Executive privilege
Formal/informal power
Honeymoon period
Impeach
Imperial president
Impoundment
Lame duck
Legislative veto
Line item veto
Mandate
National Security Council
OMB
Pardon
Pocket veto
Power of the Sword
Presidential vs. parliamentary system
Press secretary
Signing statements
State of the Union Address
USA Patriot Act
Veto
War Powers Resolution of 1973
Watergate
White House Staff
Budget
Affordable Care Act
16th amendment
Appropriations Bill/Committee
Authorization Bill
Balanced Budget
Budget resolution
Congressional Budget Control
and Impoundment Act of 1974
CBO
Continuing resolutions
Debt
Debt ceiling
Deficit
Discretionary spending
Entitlements
Expenditures
Flat tax
Graduated tax
GDP
House Ways and Means
Committee
Income tax
Incrementalism
Mandatory spending
Medicare/Medicaid
Office of Management and
Budget (OMB)
Omnibus Bill
Payroll tax
Progressive/regressive taxes
Reconciliation
Revenue Bills
Revenues
Senate Finance Committee
Sequestration
Social Security Act
Social Security Trust Funds
Surplus
Tax expenditures
Uncontrollable expenditures
BUREAUCRACY
Administrative discretion
bureaucracy
Cabinet
Civil service
Civil service exam
Command and control policy
Deregulation
Dodd Frank Wall St Ref. and
Consumer Protection Act
Executive orders
EPA
FDA
FOIA
Incentive system
Independent executive agency
Independent regulatory agencies
Iron triangles
Legislative veto
Merit principle
Patronage
Pendleton Act
Policy implementation
Red tape
Regulation
subpoena
transparency
COURTS
“switch in time”
Amicus curiae briefs
Appellate jurisdiction
Brief
Burger Court
Chief justice
Civil law
Class action
Common law
Concurring opinion
Courts of appeal
Court of claims
Defendant
Dissenting opinion
District courts
Diversity cases
En banc
Exclusive jurisdiction
Federal question cases
Federalist 78
Injunction
Judicial activism
Judicial restraint
Judicial review
Jurisdiction
Justiciable disputes
Jury
Litmus test
Loose construction
majority opinion
Marbury v Madison
minority opinion
original intent
original jurisdiction
per curiam decision
plaintiff
plea bargaining
political questions
precedent
Rehnquist Court
Roberts Court
Rule of 4
Senatorial courtesy
Solicitor general
Standing to sue
Stare decisis
Statutory construction
Strict construction
Subpoena
Supreme Court
unanimous decision
Warren court
Writ of certiorari
Writ of mandamus