Index 397
Legislature
bicameral, 31
checks and balances, 34, 35
defined, 4
president and passing, 230–232
president’s veto power, 231–232
separation of powers, 34
unicameral, 28
Legitimacy, defined, 3
Lemon test, 70
Lemon v. Kurtzman, 69–70
Lesbians. See Gay men and
lesbians
Lewinsky, Monica, 238
Libel, 77
actual malice, 79
defined, 79
public figures and, 79
Liberals/liberalism
big government and, 15
defined, 13
Democratic Party and, 14
economic status and, 121–123
four-cornered ideological grid,
16, 121
judicial activism and, 286
modern, 13
on traditional political
spectrum, 15
values of, 13
Libertarianism
defined, 15
economic status and, 121
four-cornered ideological grid,
16
on traditional political
spectrum, 15
Libertarian Party, 166
Liberty. See also Civil liberties
defined, 3
equality versus, 9–10
order versus, 8–9
Libya, 228
air strikes, 333
Arab Spring, 322–323
dictatorial rule in, 3
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, 104,
291
Limbaugh, Rush, 80
Limited government, 6
Limited jurisdiction, 276
Lincoln, Abraham, 27, 333
cabinet of, 239Landon, Alfred, 125
Lasswell, Harold, 2
Latino. See also Hispanics
defined, 104
vs. Hispanic, 104
Lawmaking
bureaucracy and policymaking,
264–267
defined, 197
as function of Congress, 197–198
negotiated rulemaking, 265
president as chief legislator
and, 230–232
president’s veto power, 231–232
waiting periods and court
challenges, 264–265
Lawrence v. Texas, 110, 289
Laws
bill becomes a law process,
215 –216
case, 273
common law, 272
Jim Crow, 95
oversight, 199
rewriting, as check on courts,
291–292
sodomy, 110
sources of American law,
272–273
sunset, 261–262
sunshine, 261
Lawsuits
basic requirements to bring,
274
class-action, 274–275
diversity of citizenship, 274
interest groups and, 274–275
parties to, 274–275
standing to sue, 274
League of Nations, 322
League of Women Voters, 150
Leahy, Patrick, 202, 282
Lebanon, American troops sent
to, 228
Ledbetter, Lilly, 104
Ledbetter v. Goodyear, 292
Legal Defense Fund, 275
Legislation
enabling, 264
negotiated rulemaking, 265
sunset, 261–262
Legislative Reorganization Act,
153solicitor general and, 280
subagencies of, 254
Justiciable controversy, 274
Justiciable question, 205K
Kagan, Elena, 41, 103, 285, 288
Kennan, George F., 339
Kennedy, Anthony, 41, 288, 289
Kennedy, John F., 225
Cuban missile crisis, 339–340
debate with Nixon, 137
discretionary fiscal policy, 309
election of, without majority of
vote, 185, 226
federal forces sent to
Mississippi by, 96
Keynesian economics, 310
pact with vice president
regarding incapacity of,
242
South Vietnam supported by,
334
Vietnam War and, 228, 339
Kerry, John F.
election of 2004, demographics
and, 122
as Secretary of State, 334
Keynes, John Maynard, 309
criticism of, 310
Keynesian economics, 309–311
European debt crisis and, 333
Khamenei, Ayatollah Ali, 329
Kim Jong-un, 2, 328
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 97–98
Kissinger, Henry A., 335, 340
Kitchen cabinet, 239
Klein, Ezra, 134
Klopfer v. North Carolina, 68
Korean War, 235, 339
Krugman, Paul, 253
Ku Klux Klan, 76
Kurds in Iraq, 325
Kuwait, Iraq’s invasion of, 325L
Labor Department
functions of, 254
measuring unemployment, 308
subagencies of, 254
Labor interest groups, 146
Labor movement, 146
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