1. DEATH BY
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2. THE BERMUDA IRON TRIANGLE
CREEPY UNCLE JOE
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MONSTITUTIONAL
UNDERNAILINGS
THE BERMUDA IRON TRIANGLE
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3. States must honor each other’s documents and court decisions.
FULL FAITH & CREDIT CLAUSE
DAILY DOUBLE
States must honor each other’s documents and court decisions.

4. CATEGORICAL GRANTS
Critics argue that this form of federal aid strips states of their autonomy.

5. FRONTLOADING
Name for the process of moving primary elections to an earlier date in order to increase their importance to the electoral process.

6. OVERSIGHT
The “Power-of-the-Purse” is a form of THIS check Congress holds over the bureaucracy.

7. SUPREMACY CLAUSE
Sorry Maryland, although you can tax your own people, you can’t tax the federal government, but they can tax your people, so says THIS part of the Constitution.

8. STATE REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS
It was the issue that was settled by the Great Compromise, authored by the delegates from Connecticut.

9. CITIZENS UNITED v FEC
SCOTUS decision which held that corporations have first amendment rights too and their speech could not be unreasonably restricted prior to an election.

10. PROVIDING INFORMATION
THIS is perhaps the most important contribution of lobbyists and SIGs to the legislative process.

11. COMMERCE CLAUSE
Its invocation has led to the expansion of federal power over issues from illicit drugs to civil rights, and unsuccessfully over firearms on school grounds.

12. 2/3rds/3/4ths
Fraction of states needed to call for an Article V convention, and the fraction needed to ratify any amendments it might pass.

13. SUPER PACS
Expenditures by THESE groups are unlimited, but can’t be made directly to a candidate.

14. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION
Whether or not campaign laws are being violated or voter ID laws unfairly discriminate fall under the jurisdiction of this independent executive agency.

15. ELASTIC CLAUSE/NECESSARY & PROPER CLAUSE
The draft, OSHA regulations and the power to financially support public schools.

16. FEDERALIST #70
The “Rally-Round-the Flag Effect” would likely please the author of this Federalist Paper who wrote that divisiveness in wartime could jeopardize national security.

17. REAPPORTIONMENT
The Constitution requires that this process take place every ten years in order to reflect population shifts determined by census data.

18. DISCRETIONARY AUTHORITY
Administrative law is a form of this which shapes how broadly-defined acts of Congress are enforced by bureaucratic agencies.

19. 14TH AM DUE PROCESS CLAUSE/EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE
The principle of selective incorporation typically relies upon the Bill of Rights and one or both of these two clauses.
DAILY DOUBLE

20. BRUTUS #1
This essay argued that a large republic would inevitably marginalize some smaller factions.

21. SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICTS
The failure of third parties to break the two-party system is due in-part to their inability to secure electoral victories over these constituencies in which there can only be one winner.

22. LOBBYING FOR SMALL POLICY CHANGES WITHIN THE BUREAUCRACY OR CONGRESS
Theoretically, it’s the best way special interests can get what they want without raising too much of a stink.