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Test 3 - Review

 

Know and be familiar with these terms:

 

Constituency

Bicameral

Representation

District

Incumbent

Entrenched Incumbency

Pork-barrel

Bill

Filibuster

Veto

Oversight

Committee

Cloture

Delegated powers

Appointment

State of the Union Address

Honeymoon Period

Persuasion

Presidential Personality (Barber)

Cabinet

Executive Office of the President

Brownlow Committee

OMB

Bureaucracy

Civil Service Act of 1883

Departments

Agencies

Old-Style/New-Style

Clientele Capture

Independent Regulatory Commissions

U.S. Supreme Court

Judicial Review

Plaintiff

Defendant

Stare Decisis

Jurisdiction

Trial Court

Federal Court

Court of Appeals

Chief Justice

Marbury v. Madison

Writ of Mandamus

Common Law

Standing

Ripeness

Justiciability

Writ of Certiorari

Judicial Activism

Judicial Restraint

“Legislating from the bench”