Index 317
Henry Wallace 86; New Deal 27, 29,
32,196; and party system 28–9, 64,
71, 156, 234; political power 153; and
Social Security Act 243; and Supreme
Court 226, 229, 230, 232; and TVA
201; and Twenty-Second Amendment
176; and United Nations 260
Roosevelt, President Theodore 153, 260
Roosevelt System 27, 234–5
Rossiter, Clinton 51, 161
Rove, Karl 192
Rozell, M.J. 119
Rules Committee 136–8
Rumsfeld, Donald 53, 192, 261, 269–70
Saddam Hussein 192, 266, 268, 269–71
Sands, P. 281
Scalia, Justice Antonin 231, 285
Schenck v. US (1919) 190
Schickler, E. 147
Schlesinger, A.M. Jr 44, 178, 181, 262,
281
School District v. Schempp (1963) 230
Schulz, George P. 164
Schwartz, Professor Bernard 200
Schwarzenegger, Governor Arnold 40–1,
42–3
sectionalism 10–11, 18–26; election of
1896 22–3; and nationalism 22–6, 31
Securities and Exchange Commission
108
Sedition Act (1918) 189
segregation, racial 213–15
Senate: composition 6, 129;
confirmation power 145–6, 227–8;
elections 74–5, 94–6; filibuster 138–9,
239; floor leaders and whips 129, 131;
Government Operations Committee
204; and health care reform 241;
impeachment and 154; and Kyoto
Protocol 170, 278; leadership 129–30;
party committees 135–6; powers 7,
121, 129, 259; seniority system 130;
standing committees 132–4; treaty
power 146, 175, 260; see also Congress,
House of Representatives
Sensenbrenner, Rep. F. James 246
separation of powers 3, 6–7, 48, 158
settlement of USA 8–10
Sierra Club 114
slavery 10–11, 69
Smith Alfred E. 27, 35
Smith, Judge Howard J. 137
Social Security Act (1935) 243
Socialist Labor Party 49
Solicitor General 224
Somalia 266
Sorenson, Theodore 162
Souter, Justice David 231
South, role in political system 47, 69–72,
283
Spanish–American War 260
Speaker 52, 55, 122, 126, 129, 130–1,
135, 137
Specter, Senator Arlen 39–40, 247
Spitzer, R.J. 119
spoils system see patronage
Stanford v. Kentucky (1989) 249
Starr, Kenneth 154
states: constitutions 60–1; elected
officials 61; elections 97–9;
establishment of 2, 10–12; judicial
systems 222–4; legislative
apportionment and 96–7; politics in
the states 46–7, 59; powers of 3–6
States’ Rights Party 85
Stelzer, Irwin 73
stem cell research 257, 284
Stevens, Justice John P. 230, 253, 285
Stevenson, Adlai 112, 116
Stewart, Justice Potter 248
Stillman, R.J. 208
Strauss, Lewis S. 145
suburbs 26–8
Supreme Court: and abortion policy
218–19, 228, 231; amici curiae 118,
219; appointments 226–8, 230–1,
284–5; attacks on 231–2; Burger
Court 231; Chief Justices 305; and
civil rights 213–5, 229–30; checks
to power of President 217–18;
Congress and 211; and death penalty
247–50; judicial activism 221; judicial
behaviour 220–1, 228; judicial
restraint 221; judicial review 209–11,
219–22; as policy-maker 211–13;
politics and the judges 226–9; public
opinion and 232–3; role 232–3;
Warren Court 214, 229–30, 231
Sweezy v. New Hampshire (1956) 229Taft, Senator Robert 83
Taft, President William 228
Taft–Hartley Act (1947) 108, 112
Taliban 250–1, 252
Task Force on National Health Care
Reform 240–1
Tedford, T. 193