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That place from which an increasing number of Americans hail, increasing from 4.7% in 1970 to 12.9% in 2010
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Abroad
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That the function of which is to coordinate intelligence and defence information with which it can provide non-partisan advice to the President on matters concerning foreign policy, security, and defence
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National Security Council (NSC)
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That which campaigners have sought to improve via Constitutional amendments, legislation, Supreme Court decisions, presidential leadership, and citizen action
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Racial Rights
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That body the foreign policy powers of which practically lie in scrutinising the President's policies via the Foreign Affairs Committee, and other such committees
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Congress
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That body which politicises appointments to the Supreme Court by focussing on scandal and rumour such as by rabidly chasing sexual assault allegations against Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh
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Press
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An 1810 Supreme Court case in which, for the first time, the court declared a state law unconstitutional
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Fletcher v Peck
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That which has become more pronounced in Senate votes on Supreme Court nominations in the last 15 years
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Partisanship
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Those guarantees, mostly spelt out in the Constitution, that protect people's expression and property from arbitrary interference by government
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Civil Liberties
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That body in which Presidents try to ensure (though less so in Trump's) there is good representation of sex, race, region, age, and ideology, though region and age tend to reflect the President's own home state and age
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Cabinet
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The advisory group selected by the President to aid him in making decisions and coordinating the work of the federal government
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Cabinet
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Presidential persuasion undertaken through other people on his behalf
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Persuasion through People
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That position and formal power of the President to act as head of the military, important during the Second World War, Cold War, and War on Terror, to which the ability of Congress to check is unclear
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Commander in Chief
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The top staff, agencies (of which there are three principal ones), and advisers, that provide advice and administrative support to the President, the most senior of them being based in the West Wing of the White House
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Executive Office of the President
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That type of persuasion that the President can undertake through the; Vice President, members of the Office of Legislation Affairs, Cabinet officers, and party leaders in Congress
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Persuasion through People
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Those two bodies between which there is tension due to the former having much closer proximity and access to the President, and due to the divided loyalties of the latter to the President, the executive departments, Congress, pressure groups, etc.
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Executive Office of the President and Cabinet
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That the approval of which can affect presidential success as the more popular the President, the more they are able to exert power or see success such as Congress being unwilling to impeach popular President Clinton, now viewed increasingly through partisan lines
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Public
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The power of the Supreme Court to declare acts of Congress, the executive, or state governments, unconstitutional, granted to itself in the landmark cases of Marbury v Madison and Fletcher v Peck
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Judicial Review
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That Trump era executive order which placed a ban on refugees from seven Muslim majority countries on entering the country, to protect against terrorism, blocked by the courts and ultimately superseded by a separate order (revised by two presidential proclamations)
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Executive Order 13,769
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That office to which a person accedes either by election alongside the President or appointment mid-term subject to the approval of a simple majority by both chambers of Congress
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Vice-President
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That which those aged under 18 and those with a learning disability are exempt from under Roper v Simmons (2002) and Atkins v Virginia (2002) respectively
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Death Penalty
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