Index 399
division of, between state
government and,
continuing dispute over,
56 – 61
enumerated powers, 49
implied, 54
inherent powers, 50
to levy taxes, 51
necessary and proper clause,
49–50, 54
prohibited, 51
supremacy clause and, 51–53
same-sex marriage and, 62
National Guard, federalization
of, and deployment to
Afghanistan/Iraq, 53
National Organization for Women
(NOW), 100, 145, 150
National Public Radio, 133
National Review, 14 0
National Rifle Association, 150
National Right to Life Committee,
150
National security
civil rights of immigrants and,
87–88
privacy rights versus, 9, 86–87
National Security Act, 334
National Security Adviser, 234, 240
National Security Agency (NSA)
surveillance by, 87
warrantless wiretaps, 87
National Security Council (NSC),
241, 321
creation and purpose of, 335
foreign policymaking and,
334–335
National security policy, 321
National Security Staff, 239
National Wildlife Federation, 149
National Woman Suffrage
A ssociation, 10 0 –101
NATO. See North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO)
Natural rights, 26
Navy SEALS, 327
Near v. Minnesota, 68
Nebraska Press Association v.
Stuart, 80
Necessary and proper clause,
49–50, 54, 201
Negative advertising, 135–136
Negative constituents, 334Nader, Ralph, 149, 166
Nagasaki, 228
NARAL Pro-Choice America, 150
National American Woman
Suffrage Association, 101
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP), 96, 145, 150,
275
National Association of
Manufacturers, 146
National Audubon Society, 149
National Center for Policy
Analysis, 317
National committee, 156
National Committee to Preserve
Social Security and Medicare,
317
National convention
convention activities, 155, 184
defined, 155
delegates to, 155–156, 168, 183
as meeting of party elites, 181
party platform, 155
reform of, 181
seating delegates, 184
superdelegates to, 181
National debt, 253, 312. See also
Federal budget deficit
National Economic Council, 240
National Education Association
(NEA), 147
National government
aristocracy of, 258
budget, 215 –219
bureaucracy of
congressional control of,
267
organization of, 250–258
policymaking and, 264–267
reform of, modern attempts at,
261–264
size of, 249–250
staffing, 258–261
cooperative federalism, 57–58
devolution, 58–59
dual federalism, 57
health care spending,
299–300
powers of, 49–50
Civil War and, 55–56
commerce clause, 55, 61
concurrent, 51Military
Articles of Confederation and,
29–30
federal budget spent on, 250,
251
gay men and lesbians in, 111
president as commander in
chief, 228–229
women and military combat, 102
Military Commissions Act, 278, 279
Miller v. California, 76
Minerals Management Service, 256
Minority leader of the house,
213–214
Minority-majority districts,
208–209
Minor parties
ideological third parties, 165–166
impact of, 166
role in U.S. politics, 165–166
splinter parties, 166
state and federal laws favoring
two parties, 164–165
Miranda, Ernesto, 85
Miranda v. Arizona, 85
Mondale, Walter, 242
Monetary policy, 312–314
defined, 312
loose (expansionary), 313
organization of Federal Reserve
System, 313
quantitative easing, 314
during recession, 314
tight (contractionary), 313
time lags for, 313
Monroe, James, 158, 338
Monroe Doctrine, 338
Montesquieu, Baron de, 37
Moral idealism, 322–323
Mossadegh, Mohammad, 335
Motor voter bill, 190
Mott, Lucretia, 100
Movies, prior restraint, 80
Mubarak, Hosni, 322
Muir, John, 149
Muslim Americans, voting
behavior, 124
Myanmar, 3N
NAACP (National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
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