AP GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
REVIEW SHEET UNIT TEST FOUR CHAPTER 11 – 14
DECEMBER 2011
1. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
PARLIAMENT AND US CONGRESS
2. IN US CONSTITUTION WHO
ORIGINALLY SELECTED
SENATORS
3. FILIBUSTER
4. DESCRIBE THE AVERAGE
CONGRESSMAN
5. MARGINAL DISTRICT
6. LEADERSHIP IN CONGRESS
7. WHERE IS POWER FOUND IN
CONGRESS
8. WHAT ARE THE COMMITTEES IN
CONGRESS
9. CLOTURE
10. REVENUE BILLS WHAT IS
IMPORTANT ABOUT THEM
11. MARKUP SESSION
12. DISCHARGE PETITION
13. HOW WOULD YOU FIND OUT HOW
A CONGRESSMAN VOTED
14. WHERE WAS THE POWER TO REST
IN THE US NATIONAL
GOVERNMENT
15. REQUIREMENTS OF
REPRESENTATIVES, SENATORS
AND PRESIDENT
16. HOW DID THE FOUNDING
FATHERS SEE THE PRESIDENCY –
POWER
17. DEFINE THE FOLLOWING
POWERS: inherent, enumerate,
implicit, delegated
18. WHY DID CONGRESS PASS THE
WAR POWERS ACT IN 1973?
19. WHAT IS THE “HONEYMOON
PERIOD” OF A PRESIDENT”?
20. EXPLAIN THE FORMS OF
PRESIDENTIAL ORGANIZATIONAL
STRUCTURE: AD HOC, PYRAMID,
CIRCULAR,
21. DIVIDED GOVERNMENT
22. ORGANIZATION OF THE WHITE
HOUSE
23. WHO INFLUENCES THE
PRESIDENT THE MOST
24. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF
THE PRESIDENT
25. POPULARITY OF THE PRESIDENT
EQUATES TO MORE POWER WHY?
26. BUREAUCRACY – WHAT DOES IT
INCLUDE
27. WHEN DID BUREAUCRACY
INCREASE GREATLY
28. CIVIL SERVICE
29. PENDLETON ACT
30. NAME REQUEST NOMINATIONS
31. IRON TRIANGLES
32. ISSUE NETWORKS
33. LEGISLATIVE VETO
34. DOWN SIZING IN GOVERNMENT –
HOW AND SUCCESS
35. LARGEST GOVERNMENT
ORGANIZATIONS
36. GOVERNMENT CORPORATIONS
37. ACCOUNTABLITY IN
GOVERNMENT ACTS
38. 1789 TO CIVIL WAR – SUPREME
COURT ISSUES
39. CIVIL WAR TO 1930S SUPREME
COURT ISSUES
40. 1936 TO THE PRESENT- SUPREME
COURT ISSUES
41. DISTRICT COURTS – NUMBERS
AND JOBS
42. APPEALS COURTS- NUMBERS
AND JOBS
43. WHAT IS CERTIORARI
44. NUMBERS ON THE SUPREME
COURT
45. IRON TRIANGLE – HOW DO THEY
WORK?