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11 Cards in this Set
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Office of Management and Budget
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Helps control federal executive bureaucracy.
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Congressional Budget Office
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Evaluates presidential budget. It also estimates the cost of a potential bill.
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Priming
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The Media's affect on the standards that citizens use to evaluate political figures or political problems
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Framing
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When the Media induce people to think about an issue from a certain standpoint.
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Marbury v. Madison
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Court case in which Supreme Court gave itself right of Judicial Review (1803).
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Statutory Interpretation
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The judicial act of interpreting ordinary laws (rather than the constitution) to specific cases.
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McCulloch v. Maryland
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First case in which Supreme Court declared a state law unconstitutional (1819).
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Borking
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Politicizing the nomination process of a judge through a public campaign that portrays the nominee as a dangerous extremist.
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Stare Decisis
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In court rulings, reliance on consistency with precedents.
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Cert
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A document issued by Supreme Court indicating that it will take a case.
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writ of habeas corpus
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Court order to bring a defendant in front of a judge to determine legality of his/her imprisonment
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