Edexcel Politics 8. US Politics: President and Supreme Court

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That President, whom all subsequent officeholders until President Trump issued a lower average yearly number of executive orders than
Ronald Reagan
A Bush Doctrine idea that America had a right to shape a balance of power that favours freedom by virtue of having achieved it itself in part by defeating communism and fascism
Virtue of American Primacy
The highest court in the federal judiciary composed of nine justices together having the power of ultimate discretionary appellate jurisdiction over all federal and state courts on points of constitutional law, federal law, and US treaties
Supreme Court
That place from which an increasing number of Americans hail, increasing from 4.7% in 1970 to 12.9% in 2010
Abroad
A term used by those who consider checks and balances on the judiciary to be insufficient, thus giving it excessive power
Imperial Judiciary
That which has become more pronounced in Senate votes on Supreme Court nominations in the last 15 years
Partisanship
A system of laws, regulatory measures, courses of actions, and funding priorities promulgated by the government and affecting the population, much impacted by the Supreme Court - through judicial review - either upholding or removing it
Public Policy
Those bodies of whom the Constitution states the President may require the opinions of in writing on matters concerning their office alone
Executive Departments
That which campaigners have sought to improve via Constitutional amendments, legislation, Supreme Court decisions, presidential leadership, and citizen action
Racial Rights
Where specific provisions of a bill are vetoed, allowed of the President by Congress in 1996 but declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court two years later
Line-Item Veto
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969, nominated by Eisenhower, known for leading a strongly liberal court which did much to strike down segregation, Jim Crow laws, and McCarthyism
Earl Warren
The President in which many saw the ideas of the imperial presidency best reflected, particularly in reference to the Watergate Scandal
Richard Nixon
The number of black department heads whom were appointed under both Obama and Trump
One
That president whom, with the end of the Cold War, re-orientated foreign policy towards humanitarian intervention such as in Bosnia and Somalia
Bill Clinton
That President whose presidency was much damaged by the response to Hurricane Katrina and the Great Recession, belittling ideas of an imperial presidency
George W. Bush
That President whose cabinet included the first ever black department head
Lyndon B. Johnson
That body which politicises appointments to the Supreme Court by increasingly voting along party lines, and focussing on scandal, innuendo, and political philosophy above competence, with little effective scrutiny, especially under unified government
Senate
An 1810 Supreme Court case in which, for the first time, the court declared a state law unconstitutional
Fletcher v Peck
Positive acts of government designed to protect people against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by government or individuals
Civil Rights
That body which if a member of Congress is to enter, they must retire or give up their seat, such as did Jeff Sessions from the Senate in 2017 to become Attorney General
Cabinet
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