Edexcel Politics 8. US Politics: President and Supreme Court

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That individual who can find it difficult to build support for his legislative agenda due to partisanship, more awareness by Congress of constituents' wishes such as by email, and more such individuals being politically inexperienced such as Reagan or Trump

Those two events which most affected George W. Bush's and Barack Obama's ability to wield power, chronologically

The mandated moving of children between racially homogenous neighbourhoods to create racially mixed schools

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Muslim majority countries on entering the country, to protect against terrorism, blocked by the courts and ultimately superseded by a separate order (revised by two presidential proclamations)

A Supreme Court justice who interprets the Constitution strictly or literally, tending to stress the power of the states, and oftentimes being originalist

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1969 to 1986, nominated by Nixon, known for being conservative though also for heading the court during Roe v Wade, and the rejection of Nixon's claim of executive privilege during Watergate

That which has been called an 'echo chamber of the views of earlier decades' by lieu of its members generally outliving their appointers political life due to life tenure

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

A 2016 5:3 (there being an unfilled vacancy) Supreme Court ruling overturning a 2013 Texas state restriction on where abortions could be provided which had reduced the number of such clinics from 41 to 20, decided by Justice Kennedy's vote

An office of the larger White House Office, the members of which lobby Congress on the President's behalf

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A 2004 Supreme Court case in which the court upheld the constitutionality of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act which limited advertising expenditure during political campaigning

That president whom was successful domestically in imposing federal education standards on states and creating the Homeland Security Department, but not in part privatising social insurance for the elderly

Those three instruments it has been argued are evidence of an imperial presidency, in alphabetical order

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

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

That which most Supreme Court cases are, as well comprising nearly all the influential examples of such cases

A 2002 Supreme Court case in which a 5:4 conservative majority overturned an Ohioan ban on giving financial aid to parents, mostly black, allowing them to send their children to religious or private schools rather than failing state schools, 96% choosing religious schools

The President whose cabinet was the most racially diverse in history

That office which could be said to be a member of both the executive and legislature, though practically no legislative role besides breaking ties in the Senate is performed

That Supreme Court case in which the court ruled as it did because the 'individual mandate' requiring American's possess health insurance or face consequences was a tax and thus allowed of Congress by the Constitution separate to the Commerce Clause which was not applicable