Edexcel Politics 8. US Politics: President and Supreme Court

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That office, which of the 22 major party candidates for in the 2016 election, only three were from ethnic minorities, one black, one Hispanic, and one Indian-American

The advisory group selected by the President to aid him in making decisions and coordinating the work of the federal government

George W. Bush's foreign policy doctrine formulated after 9/11 based on the ideas of the 'virtue of American primacy' and pre-emptive war

A 2014 Supreme Court case in which the court unanimously ruled that the President lacked the constitutional authority to make high-level executive 'recess' appointments when the Senate was technically available to give advice and consent

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

That, a popular argument in favour of is that deference to the executive and legislature should be shown as they - unlike the judiciary - are popularly elected

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

The place from which most including all the current Supreme Court Justices, except for Elena Kagan, are drawn

That body appointments to which are so important as they are infrequent, come with life tenure, each individual has great influence due to their small number, and their power of judicial review is highly impactful and significant

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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That minority that Republicans have pointed to so as to demonstrate why affirmative action is unnecessary

Those members of Cabinet that consist of the heads of the 15 executive departments

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

Those inferred presidential powers outside the scope of the Constitution, that are often subject to judicial review

That, the two methods of which are persuasion through perks and persuasion through people

The year in which the Senate last rejected a President's Supreme Court nominee

That President who struggled to achieve much domestically as he was often hampered by congressional opposition and the Supreme Court, such as over his Affordable Care Act, immigration reform, and his use of executive orders

A programme of giving members of previously disadvantaged minority groups preferential treatment or special benefits so as to achieve diversity, multiculturalism, and equality of outcome

That office the success of which has often been determined by; economic prosperity and unified government, such as under Reagan, George W. Bush, and Obama, causing accusations of an imperial presidency

Presidential persuasion undertaken through other people on his behalf