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Technical assistance, 321
Television
bias in, 138–139
as entertainment source, 132
First Amendment freedoms
and, 80–81
influence on political process, 135
as news source, 131
Temporary Assistance for Needy
Families (TANF), 250
Ten Commandments, 73
Tenth Amendment, 45, 50–51
Terrorism. See also al Qaeda; War
on terrorism
death of bin Laden, 327
domestic, 324
emergence of, 323–324
September 11, 2001, 324
Theocracy, 4
Third Amendment, 68, 81
Third Parties
defined, 165
ideolog ica l, 165 –166
impact of, 166
splinter parties, 166
state and federal laws favoring
two parties, 164–165
Thirteenth Amendment, 56, 93
Thomas, Clarence, 41, 74, 285,
288, 289
Three-fifths compromise, 32–33
Ticket splitting, 157
Tight monetary policy, 313
Tinker v. Des Moines School
District, 74
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 144, 271
Top-two primary, 182–183
Totalitarianism, 4
Totalitarian regime, 4
Town meetings, 4
Tracking polls, 127, 175
Transportation, Department of
functions of, 255
subagencies of, 255
Treasuries, 310
Treasury, Department of, 241,
249
functions of, 254
subagencies of, 254
Treasury Department, 261
Treaties
proposed by president,
229–230, 334incorporation theory, 68–69
Line Item Veto Act, 232
medical marijuana, 61
Miranda rule, exceptions to,
85
obscenity, 76–77
physician-assisted suicide,
83–84
prior restraint, 73–74
same-sex marriage, 62, 112
school prayer, 71–72
school vouchers, 71
separate-but-equal doctrine,
95, 96
sodomy laws, 110
symbolic speech, 74
voting rights, 62
whistleblowers, 263–264
solicitor general and, 280
states’ rights, trend toward, 61
at work, 279–281
Sweden, unitary system of
government in, 46
Symbolic speech, 74
Syria, 323
al-Assad’s leadership of, 2
dictatorial rule in, 2T
Taft, William Howard, 166, 226,
283
Taiwan, 330
Taliban
in Afghanistan, 320, 326
in Pakistan, 325, 326
Talk radio, 120
Ta xes, 314 –315
estate, 315
export, 33
to fund Obamacare, 301
income (See Income tax)
loopholes and, 315
marginal tax rate, 314
Medicare, 314, 315
progressive, 315
regressive, 315
rich paying more, 316
sales, 316
Social Security, 314, 315
types of, 314–315
Tea Party movement, 150, 162
elite theory and, 7
opposition to Obamacare, 302photo of, 288
strict or broad construction,
287
Supreme Court of United States,
277
after Civil War, 57
campaign ads, 178
caseload of, 281
cases that reach, 280
checks and balances, 34, 35
decisions of, 281
dual federalism and, 57
executive checks, 289–291
executive checks over, 289–291
federalism and, 53–55, 61–62
as highest court in land, 274,
277
impact of lower courts on, 293
judicial activism, 286
judicial restraint, 287
judicial review and, 40
judicial traditions and doctrine,
292–293
legislative checks, 291–292
legislative checks over, 291–292
Marshall Court, 53–54
opinions of, 281
political question, 293
procedures of, 280
public opinion, 292
Rehnquist Court, 287–288
Roberts Court, 287, 288–289
rule of four, 280
rulings of
abortion, 81–83
affirmative action, 108
apportionment, 206–207
candidates’ financing of
campaign, 176
civil rights, 94–97
civil service system, 260
commercial speech, 75
death with dignity law, 61
emergency power, 235
enemy combatant detainees,
278–279
establishment clause, 69
evolution, teaching of, 72
executive privilege, 237
free legal counsel, 85
gun free zone, 61
health-care reform, 62, 302
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