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the Supreme Court | Which courts decisions are binding across the entire United States? |
Congress | Who can limit judicial review of a law? |
the Supreme Court | Who's judicial power does congress have the right to limit? |
The Chief Justice | Who presides over an impeachment trial? |
James Madison | Who wrote that the legislative branch was the predominate branch of government? |
Federalist 51 | In which Federalist paper did James Madison state that the legislative branch of government was predominate? |
Congress | Immediately following the civil war which branch of government was seen to have the greater amount of power? |
two | How many bills did George Washington veto? |
one | How many bills did James Monroe veto? |
twelve | How many bills did Andrew Jackson veto |
Andrew Jackson | Who was the seventh President of the United States? |
fifteen | How many of Andrew Johnson's veto's were over turned by Congress |
Tenure of Office Act | What act did congress pass that gave the senate the right to approve the dismissal of a cabinet official? |
Grover Cleveland | Who was the first president to veto over 400 bills? |
Grover Cleveland | Under which President was the Tenure of Office Act repealed? |
Franklin Roosevelt | Which President attempted to pack the supreme court? |
Congress | Who had granted Franklin Roosevelt sweeping authority during the great depression? |
national security | Under what basis did Richard Nixon assert an expansion of the power of the President? |
checks and balances | What term is used when one branch of government must get approval from at least one other branch of government? |
the Supreme Court | Who has congress delegated the responsibility of establishing the rules of conduct for the courts to? |
the Florida Supreme Court | Who may license and regulate attorneys in Florida? |
the Florida Supreme Court | Who sets the procedures to be followed in the Florida court system? |
Architectural | What is the latin word for architecture? |
architectura | What is the Latin word for architecture? |
Architecture | What do you call the planning and building of buildings? |
Architectural works | What structures can be viewed as both works of art and symbols of certain cultures? |
architectural achievements | Civilizations from the past cane often be identified by what surviving structures? |
Greek | In what language does the word "architecture" have its origins? |
ἀρχι- "chief" and τέκτων "builder" | What two words is "architecture" a combination of? |
buildings and other physical structures | Architecture involves the creation of what? |
as works of art | Aside from symbolizing cultures, what else are architectural works thought of as? |
Historical civilizations | What can extant architectural works be used to identify? |
De architectura | What is the oldest architecture plans that has survived? |
Roman architect Vitruvius | Who created the oldest surviving architecture plans? |
1st century AD. | When did Vitruvius create these plans? |
firmness, commodity and delight. | What are the three principles every plan should consider? |
De architectura | What is the first known extant writing about architecture called? |
Vitruvius | Who was the author of De architectura? |
architect | What was Vitruvius' profession? |
firmitas, utilitas, venustas | What were Vitruvius' three principles for a well made building? |
firmness, commodity and delight | What is the commonly seen English translation of the three principles? |
16th century | When were the styles of arts created? |
Vasari | Who wrote Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects? |
Italian, French, Spanish and English | By the 18th century which languages was Vasaris book translated in? |
architect | In Vitruvius's mind, whose responsibility was it to see the principles carried out? |
Leon Battista Alberti | Who wrote De Re Aedificatoria? |
proportion | What did Leon Battista Alberti consider most important for beauty? |
the Golden mean | What ideal proportion did Alberti promote? |
16th | In what century did "style" as an artistic concept arise? |
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin | Who wrote the book Contrasts? |
1836 | What year was Contrasts written in? |
Contrasts | What was the name of Pugin's book? |
1836 | In what year was Contrasts written? |
modern, industrial world | What world did Pugin dislike? |
Gothic | What type of architecture did Pugin consider truly Christian? |
John Ruskin | Who wrote Seven Lamps of Architecture? |
John Ruskin | Who was the author of Seven Lamps of Architecture? |
art critic | What was Ruskin's career? |
1849 | When was Seven Lamps of Architecture published? |
to his mental health, power, and pleasure | What, according to Ruskin, should looking at architecture contribute to its viewer? |
not | Does Ruskin believe all buildings are works of architecture? |
the aesthetic | What was most significant in architecture according to Ruskin? |
it is in some way "adorned" | To be true architecture in Ruskin's opinion what should be done to a structure? |
string courses or rustication | What features at minimum did Ruskin insist on for a building to be considered functional? |
20th-century | What century was the architect Le Corbusier in? |
Le Corbusier | Who wrote on the topic of architectural ideals contrasted with simple construction? |
Architect | What was Le Corbusier 's profession? |
20th-century | When did Le Corbusier live and write? |
heart | What part of him did Le Corbusier say proper architecture touched? |
I am happy | What state of emotion did Le Corbusier say architecture put him in? |
Function | What term replaced Vitruvius' term "utility"? |
aesthetic, psychological and cultural | In addition to being practically useful what other aspects did a building need in order to be considered functional? |
Vitruvius | Whose concept of utility did the more modern concept of function replace? |
all criteria of the use, perception and enjoyment of a building | What aspects of a building were considered part of the larger concept of function? |
both popularity and skepticism | What were the reactions to the idea that function should come before other concerns? |
rationalism, empiricism, structuralism, poststructuralism, and phenomenology. | What are some philosophies that modern architects use? |
philosophies | Rationalism and empiricism are examples of what? |
their approach to building design | Aside from the architects what did the philosophies influence? |
poststructuralism | Which philosophy followed structuralism? |
late 20th century | When was the conecept, Sustainable architecture used? |
sustainability | What novel concept was introduced at the end of the 20th century? |
environment | To what should a building be friendly? |
non-sustainable power sources | What sort of power sources should a building not overuse if the building is to be considered environmentally friendly? |
shelter, security, worship | What dynamic needs were the reason for building to be done? |
knowledge | Oral traditions allowed what to become formalized in human cultures? |
a craft | What was building considered? |
architecture | What was the most valued type of building craft called? |
building materials | Aside from skills, what is required in order to have the means for building? |
vernacular buildings | What type of buildings are are built mostly through out the world? |
a surplus in production | Why did the economy begin to expand? |
trial and error | Through what process is it thought that the first architectural achievements were made? |
vernacular | What is a popular type of architecture that still exists around the planet? |
rural | In what environment were many of the first human settlements? |
urbanization | What sort of an effect did a growing economy have on human settlements? |
rapidly | At what speed did urban settlements sometimes expand? |
Egypt and Mesopotamia | What civilizations used the divine and supernatural in their architecture? |
Egypt and Mesopotamia | What are two examples of past civilizations? |
the divine and the supernatural | To what did these civilizations have ties that to were shown off by their architecture? |
political power | What does architectural monumentality often represent? |
Kao Gong Ji | Name one Asian architectural writer. |
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