American Government and Politics Today, Brief Edition, 2014-2015

336 PART FOuR • POliCymAking By 2001, the agency had come under fire again. Problems included the discovery that one of its agen ...

CHAPTER FOuRTEEn • FOREign POliCy 337 tration over the long and costly war and angry at Richard Nixon for some of his other acti ...

338 PART FOuR • POliCymAking Monroe Doctrine A policy statement made by President James Monroe in 1823, which set out three prin ...

CHAPTER FOuRTEEn • FOREign POliCy 339 Containment A U.S. diplomatic policy adopted by the Truman administration to contain Commu ...

340 PART FOuR • POliCymAking Détente A French word meaning a relaxation of tensions. The term characterized U.S.-Soviet relation ...

CHAPTER FOuRTEEn • FOREign POliCy 341 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. The result was the dismantling of four thou- san ...

342 PART FOuR • POliCymAking In many countries throughout the world, human rights are not protected. In some nations, people are ...

CHAPTER FOuRTEEn • FOREign POliCy 343 Cold War 327 containment 339 defense policy 321 détente 340 diplomacy 321 economic aid 321 ...

344 PART FOuR • POliCymAking testyourself LO1 Define foreign policy, and discuss moral idealism versus political realism in fore ...

the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a can­ did World. He has re ...

346 AppenDIx A • The DeClArATIon of InDepenDenCe He has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers t ...

Clause 2: Qualifications. No Person shall be a Repre sen­ tative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, an ...

348 APPendIx B • ConSTITUTIon of The UnITed STATeS Clause 5: Officers and Impeachment. The House of Representatives shall chuse ...

APPendIx B • The ConSTITUTIon of The UnITed STATeS 349 arrested for things they say during speeches and debates in Congress. Thi ...

350 APPendIx B • ConSTITUTIon of The UnITed STATeS Post roads include all routes over which mail is carried— highways, railways, ...

APPendIx B • The ConSTITUTIon of The UnITed STATeS 351 A writ of habeas corpus is a court order directing a sheriff or other pub ...

352 APPendIx B • ConSTITUTIon of The UnITed STATeS or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector. The “Electo ...

APPendIx B • The ConSTITUTIon of The UnITed STATeS 353 the military. The president may ask for the help of the head of each of t ...

354 APPendIx B • ConSTITUTIon of The UnITed STATeS also can take on cases involving citizens of different states and citizens of ...

APPendIx B • The ConSTITUTIon of The UnITed STATeS 355 each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or ...