310 Index
Black, Justice Hugo L. 230
Black Liberation Front 66
Blackmun, Justice Harry 212, 218
Bloomberg, Mayor Michael R. 33
Blix, Hans 270
Bolton, John 146, 270
Bork, Judge Robert 227
Bosnia and Herzegovina 267
Branch Davidians 67
Brandeis, Justice Louis D. 227
Brennan, Justice William J. 248, 249
Breyer, Justice Stephen 231, 253–4
Bricker Amendment 176, 177
Brown, Governor Jerry 80
Brown v. Board of Education (1954) 213–15,
225, 229
Brownlow Committee (1937) 206
Bryan, William Jennings 22
Bryce, Lord James 46
Budget and Accounting Act (1921) 168
Bureau of the Budget 168
Burger, Chief Justice Warren E. 218, 230
Burnham, Walter D. 37
Burns, Dr Arthur 163
Burns, James McGregor 48
Bush, President George H.W. 71;
election of 1992 25, 45; and Iraq
268–9; and Panama 263
Bush, President George W. 146, 173–4,
179–80, 187; and Anti-Ballistic
Missile Treaty 279–80; approval
rating 271; and ‘Axis of Evil’ 271–3;
and congressional elections of 2006
284–5; election of 2000 25, 36, 37,
92–4, 123–4; election of 2004 26,
29, 30, 36, 39; foreign policy 260;
and International Criminal Court
280; and Iraq War 270–1; and Kyoto
Protocol 279; and neoconservatives
52–4; trade policy 277–8; ‘War on
Terror’ 250–4
Bush, Governor Jeb 93
Bush v. Gore (2000) 94
business interest groups 108–11
Business Round Table 109
Byrd, Senator Harry F. 88, 89
cabinet 158–61
California, politics in 41–3
Cambodia 173, 262, 263
Campbell, Angus 30, 38
Carswell, G. Harold 227
Carter, President Jimmy 51,165; election
of 1976 24, 32, 36; and judiciary
226–7; use of pocket veto 139; success
rate 125
Case, Senator Clifford P. 110
Catholics 35–6, 64–5
caucus system 75–6
cause groups 114–15
Central America Free Trade Agreement
277
Central Intelligence Agency 166, 167,
264–5, 266
Chadha case 140
Chamber of Commerce 109
Chavez, President Hugo 278
checks and balances 6–7
Cheney, Vice-President Richard 53, 87,
170, 192, 270
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831) 8
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) 245
Chisholm v. Georgia (1793) 210
Christian Coalition of America 107
Christian fundamentalists 53–4, 271
Church, Senator Frank 264; and Church
Committee 264–5
Cigler, A.J. 118
civil rights 70–1, 229–30, 250–4
Civil Rights Acts: (1957) 98; (1960) 98;
(1964) 70, 98
Civil Service Act (1883) 202
Civil Service Commission 202
civil service, federal 201–5; and spoils
system 202–3
Civil War, American 19, 69–70
Clark, Justice Tom C. 215, 228
Clark, General Wesley 80
class politics 15, 19–20, 28–31, 238
Clinton, Hillary 240
Clinton, President William Jefferson
157; and Bosnia 267; and
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty 280;
election of 1992 25, 79; election of
1996 26, 37; foreign policy 265–8;
and Haiti 263; and Helms–Burton
Act 274–5; and health care reform
239–42; impeachment 154; and
International Criminal Court
280; and Kosovo 267; and Kyoto
Protocol 278–9; line item veto 140;
and NAFTA 276; and Somalia 266;
success rate 125; and welfare reform
242–5
Colegrove v. Green (1946) 215
Committee on Administrative
Management (1937) 161, 206
Common Cause 114