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A 1925 act that reduced the excessive workload of the Supreme Court by giving it discretion over whether or not to hear cases appealed to it
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Certiorari Act
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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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The President in which many saw the ideas of the imperial presidency best reflected, particularly in reference to the Watergate Scandal
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Richard Nixon
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That amendment on which their are two different positions, namely whether the right of the people to keep and bear arms is individual or collective
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Second Amendment
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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
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Vice-President
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That which Schlesinger argued the formation of was allowed by foreign policy, with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor giving Franklin D. Roosevelt the opportunity to break free of congressional checks, a pattern continued in Korea, Lebanon, Cuba, and Vietnam
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Imperial Presidency
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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
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McConnell v Federal Election Commission
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That Supreme Court case in which the court ruled as it did because there was no state coercion of parents to choose religious over private schools and thus the First Amendment had not been violated
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Zelman v Simmons-Harris
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That which some reassessed the 'imperial presidency' as due to an increasingly assertive Congress post-Nixon, which passed laws restricting the foreign policy powers of the presidency
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Imperilled Presidency
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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 which Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution provides shall comprise members nominated by the President subject to a simple majority ratification by the Senate
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Supreme Court
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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
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National Federation of Independent Business v Sebelius
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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
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Supreme Court
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The court which is asked to review over 7,000 cases each year, of which it hears only 100 to 150
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Supreme Court
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A 2014 Supreme Court case in which a 5:4 conservative majority ruled that starting town and city council meetings with prayers did not contravene the First Amendment
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Town of Greece v Galloway
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Those members of Cabinet that consist of those appointed at the Presidents discretion
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Discretionary Members
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That president whom, with the end of the Cold War, re-orientated foreign policy towards humanitarian intervention such as in Bosnia and Somalia
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Bill Clinton
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Those two events which most affected George W. Bush's and Barack Obama's ability to wield power, chronologically
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9/11 and the Great Recession
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Positive acts of government designed to protect people against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by government or individuals
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Civil Rights
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That President, whom all subsequent officeholders until President Trump issued a lower average yearly number of executive orders than
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Ronald Reagan
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