GOVERNMENT C181 JEOPARDY & KIM OWENS STUDY GUIDE

"Ambition must be made to counteract ambition." - Federalist #51, Checks & Balances "Everyone is guaranteed the same chance to succeed in life." - Equality of Opportunity 2 examples of grants in aid. - Project grants (highways) Block grants (welfare) A direct vote by the people on either a proposed law or an amendment to a state constitution. - Referendum. A key and rarely used presidential check on congressional legislation. - Veto. A petition for a Court to hear cases. - Writ of Certiorari A political party differs from an interest group mainly in this way. - It sponsors candidates for political office in its own name. A presidential action that directs the bureaucracy to do something absent of congressional legislation. - An executive order. A presidential check on the judiciary. - A pardon. AMENDMENT: Abolished/stopped slavery. - 13th amendment AMENDMENT: Appoints the Vice President in the event something happens to the president. - 25th amendment (25 "if he ain't alive")