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Who’s yer
fav
teacher?
1
You da
bomb
2
Pass da
APGO
Who Loves
Ya?
3
4
Yo
Mama
5
Wuzup?
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Round 2
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Final
Jeopardy
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What is the name of the powerful House committee
that determines how much time for debate and how
many amendments will be allowed on the floor of the
House?
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What is the “Rules” Committee?
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The title given to the assistant to the majority leader
whose job is to keep party members in line
when there is a vote…
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What is the “Whip”?
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The name of the nonpartisan agency that provides
Congress with cost estimates for every bill and
economic reports related to budget proposals
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What is the Congressional
Budget Office (CBO)?
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What is the term for representatives trading their
votes to gain support from colleagues for bills
they support?
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What is “Logrolling?”
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The term for a joint committee of members of the
House and
Senate that is formed to reconcile bills
passed by both houses
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What is a “Conference Committee?”
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The name of the committees in the House and
Senate that approve all spending bills
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What is Appropriations?
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Leader of the House of Representatives who is
second in line to be
president if the president dies in office
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What is the Speaker of the
House
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The name of the Senate committee that holds
confirmation hearings for all federal judicial
nominees.
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What is the Judiciary Committee?
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Identify the house of Congress that permits a
minority of members to block legislation by
Filibuster.
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What is the Senate?
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The name for organized groups of congressmen or women such as
the Blue Dogs or Tea Party who share interests based on
common characteristics such as political philosophy, race, or ethnicity
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What is a caucus?
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The title of the speech the president presents to Congress
each year in accordance with Article II, Section 3 of
the constitution
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What is the State of the Union Address
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What is the title of the president’s closest
advisor who coordinates the president’s
daily schedule?
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What is the Chief of Staff?
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Identify three formal or constitutional powers
of the president.
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1. Commander in Chief (Commit Troops)
2. State of the Union
3. Veto Powers (Chief Legislator)
4. Appointment Powers (Supreme Court
Nominations)
5. Clemency Powers (Pardon)
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Informal power of the president, limited by the Supreme
Court in the case of U.S. v. Nixon
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What is Executive Orders?
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Identify one formal constitutional power
of the vice-president
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Tie Breaker in Senate?
Becoming President if Chief is killed?
Becoming acting Pres. If Chief is incapacitated?
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What is the title of the White House
advisor who is the president’s
spokesperson and who meets daily with
the media?
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What is the Press Secretary?
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What is the name of the agency in the
Executive Office of the President that
oversees preparation of the president’s
budget?
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What is the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)?
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Name of the agency in the Executive
Office of the President that advises the
president on economic policy
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What is the Council of Economic Advisors?
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What is the name the executive
department responsible the
nation’s foreign policy?
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What is the State Department?
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Name the 1883 law that established the merit system
for hiring and promoting federal employees
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What is the Pendleton Act?
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General name for the part of the federal
bureaucracy that includes AMTRAK,
the US Postal Service, and FDIC
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What are Government Corporations?
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Identify one way that Congress
can limit bureaucratic power
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They can: 1. Cut an agency’s
budget.
2. Hold hearings on an agency’s
conduct.
3. They can change a law that
affects an agency’s authority.
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Title of the head of the Department of
Justice
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Who is the Attorney General (AG)?
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Name the agency created by the Civil Rights
Act of 1964 to investigate complaints
of job discrimination
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What is the US Equal Employment
Opportunity
Commission (EEOC)?
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The 1939 law that placed restrictions
on the political activities of federal
employees
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What is the Hatch Act?
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Name given to the 94 lowest level courts in the
federal court system
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What are the District Courts?
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Name of the longest serving Chief
Justice whose decisions transformed
the Court into an equal branch
of government
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Who is John Marshall?
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Number of Supreme Court justices who must
agree to hear a case
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The “Rule of 4.”
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Term for a “friend of the court” brief filed
by an interest group that provides the
justices with information that may be relevant
to the case
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What is Amicus Curiae?
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Term for a written appeal for a case
to be heard by the Supreme Court
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What is writ of certiorari?
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Term for the authority of a court
to hear a case first
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What is Original Jurisdiction?
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Term for the authority of a court to
review a case heard by a lower court
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What is Appellate Jurisdiction?
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Approximate number of cases heard by
the Supreme Court each year
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What is 100?
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Term for an opinion written by one or more
justices who are in the majority but
want to express a separate
opinion from the majority opinion
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What is a concurring opinion?
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Name of the Chief Justice who presided over
the Court during the 1960s, during which
the Court expanded the rights of persons
accused of crimes
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Who is Earl Warren?
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Name of the current Chief Justice
of the U.S. Supreme Court
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Who is John Roberts?
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Term for a judicial philosophy
that interprets the Constitution broadly
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What is judicial activism?
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Becoming a Senator
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Final
Jeopardy
Question
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Identify three constitutional
qualifications for members of the Senate
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1. At least 30 years of age
2. Citizen of US for 9 years
3. Resident of state he/she is
going to run for
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