384 Index
Boumediene v. Bush (2008),
292–293
Bowers v. Hardwick, 110
BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill,
256, 306
Bradford, William, 21
Branch Ministries, Inc., 73
Brandeis, Louis, 48
Brandenburg v. Ohio, 76
Brazil, federal system of
government in, 47
Brewer, Jan, 62
Breyer, Stephen, 41, 285, 288
Broad construction, 287
Brown, John, 55
Brown, Linda Carol, 96
Brown, Oliver, 96
Brown, Scott, 301
Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka, 96
Bryan, Williams Jennings, 159,
161
Buckley v. Valeo, 176
Budget. See Federal budget
Budget and Impoundment
Control Act, 217
Budget deficit
deficit spending and, 311
defined, 309
Keynes and, 309
public debt and, 311–312
Budget surplus, 311–312
Bull Moose Progressive Party, 166
Bureaucracy, 247–268
congressional control of, 267
defined, 248
efficiency and productivity
incentives for, 262–263
history of civil service, 259–261
iron triangles, 266
issue network, 266–267
merit system, 259
nature of, 248–250
organization of federal,
250–258
cabinet departments, 251
chart of, 252
government corporations,
256–258
independent executive
agencies, 251–252
independent regulatory
agencies, 253–256banking crisis of 2008, 257–258
government ownership of, 257
Great Recession and bailout, 11
national bank, 54
Bankruptcy, government control
of private corporations and,
257
Benghazi consulate attack, 323
Benton v. Maryland, 68
Bernanke, Ben, 313
Bias, in media, 138–139
Bicameralism, 197
Bicameral legislature, 31, 197
Biden, Joe, 240, 241, 242
Big government, 11–12
Great Recession and, 11
health care reform and, 161
Iraq War and, 11
liberals and, 15
mid-term elections of 2010 and,
161
Obamacare and, 11
Bill, becomes a law, 215–216
Bill of Rights. See also individual
amendments
adoption of, 38
defined, 9
extending to state government,
67
freedom of expression (See
Press, freedom of; Speech,
freedom of)
incorporating Fourteenth
Amendment into, 68–69
incorporation theory, 68–69
ratification, 38
rights of noncitizens, 105
Bin Laden, Osama, 320, 324
death of, 233, 240, 327
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act,
17 7
Blackmun, Harry A., 75
Blanket primary, 182
Block grants, 60
Blue states, 161
Boehner, John, 13, 162, 213, 219
Boeing Corporation, 261
Bork, Robert, 285
Bosnia, 333
American troops sent to, 228
Boston Globe, 134
Boston Marathon bombing, 324
Boston Tea Party, 23AMTRAK, 257
Anthony, Susan B., 100
Anti-Federalists, 36–37, 157–158
Anti-Ku Klux Klan Act (Civil
Rights Act of 1872), 94
Antiterrorism and Effective
Death Penalty Act, 87–88, 278
Appellate court, 276–277, 282
Appointment power, 227
Appropriation, 218
Arab Spring, 322–323
Aristocracy, 4
Armitage, David, 27
Arraignment, 84
Arthur, Chester, 242
Articles of Confederation, 46, 53
drafting, 28
government under, 28–29
weaknesses of, 29–30
Asian Americans
percentage change in U.S.
ethnic distribution, 105
political participation by, 100
voting behavior, 123
Assembly, freedom of, 68
Association of General
Contractors of America, 147
Astroturf lobbying, 153
Aurora Colorado shooting, 70
Australia, federal system of
government in, 47
Australian ballot, 186
Authoritarianism, 4
Authority, 3
Authorization, 218
Auto industry
Great Recession and bailout, 11
higher fuel efficiency standards,
306
Ayotte, Kelly, 198B
Bad tendency rule, 75–76
Bagram Air Force Base, 279
Ballots
absentee, 186
Australian, 186
Indiana, 186
Massachusetts, 186
office-block, 186
party-column, 186
Banking industry
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