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A Supreme Court justice who interprets the Constitution strictly or literally, tending to stress the power of the states, and oftentimes being originalist
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Strict Constructionist
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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
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Supreme Court
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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 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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The decades in which the Democrat-Republican two-party system established itself
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1850's to 1860's
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A 2008 landmark Supreme Court case in which a 5:4 conservative majority declared unconstitutional - under an individualist interpretation of the Second Amendment - a 1976 District of Columbia law which banned the ownership of handguns and placed limitations on shotguns and rifles
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District of Columbia v Heller
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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 group the number of whom increase from 3.5 million in 1990 to 12.2 million in 2007, leading to much rhetoric from President Donald Trump
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Illegal Immigrants
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That amendment the opening sentence of which has been criticised as being contradictory as 'free exercise' of a religion could allow for things such as prayers in schools which could be seen as an 'establishment of religion'
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First Amendment
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A 1973 7:2 Supreme Court ruling that the Fourteenth Amendment right of 'liberty' included 'freedom of personal choice in matters of marriage and family life' including the right of a woman to abort a pregnancy
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Roe v Wade
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The two Supreme Court justices nominated by President Trump as of January 2020, chronologically
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Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh
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That the meetings of which are held at the President's discretion, usually around big political events such as the State of the Union address, with George W. Bush averaging six a year, and Obama 3.5 a year, though both being more consistent than Clinton
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Cabinet
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The President whose cabinet was the most racially diverse in history
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Barack Obama
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The two year process in which the Office of Management and Budget, President, and executive departments decide on financial requirements based on economic projections, with Congress finally legislating for it to come into effect on 1st October, though usually being late
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Budget Process
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That, the two methods of which are persuasion through perks and persuasion through people
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Presidential Persuasion
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The head of the White House Office whom keeps the President informed in a balanced way, advances the President's interests, and managed presidential business, sometimes criticised as being too powerful, as in the case of George H. W. Bush's officeholder, John Sununu
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White House Chief of Staff
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That individual the principal strengths of whom relative to Congress are that it comes with; an electoral mandate - strengthened by media exposure - the positions of head of government and head of state, powers of veto and persuasion, and a large Executive Office, providing the individual the opportunity to frame and dominate the legislative agenda
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President
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That body the members of which are usually drawn from serving or former members of Congress, serving or former state governors, big city mayors, and top universities, due to their knowledge and/or policy experience
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Cabinet
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An approach to judicial decision making which holds that judges should defer to the legislature and executive, and to precedent established in previous Court decisions, i.e. stare decisis
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Judicial Restraint
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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
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Presidency
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