Politics in the USA, Sixth Edition

Index 313

Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) 218
group politics see pluralism
Guantánamo Bay 251, 253
Gun-Free Zones Act (1990) 212

Haiti 263
Haldeman, H.R. 163, 164
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006) 253, 284
Hamdi, Yaser Esam 252
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004) 252
Hamilton, Alexander 210
Hargis, Rev. Billy 66
Harkin, Senator Tom 80
Harris, Katherine 93
Hartz, Louis 15, 17
Hawaii 1, 2, 11, 13, 240, 260
Haynesworth, Clement F. 227
health care reform 107, 239–42
Health Insurers Association of America
107
Health Security Bill 241
Helms–Burton Act (1996) 273–4
Hershey, Marjorie 189, 193
Hess, Stephen 170
Hispanic community 13, 34–5, 65
Holmes, Justice Wendell 190
Homeland Security, Department of 166,
167, 255–6
Homeland Security Council 162, 166
Hoover Commission on Organization of
the Executive Branch: First (1949)
205–6; Second (1955) 206
Houghton, David 276, 281
House of Representatives: elections
94–7; and election of president
90–1; and finance 142–4; floor
leaders and whips 131–2; leadership
129–32; party committees 135–6;
Rules Committee 136–8; seniority
system 130; Speaker 130–1; standing
committees 132–4; twenty-one-day
rule 137; Un-American Activities
Committee 144, 229; see also
Congress, Senate
Humphrey, Vice-President Hubert 79,
83
Humphrey’s Executor v. US (1935) 199
Hunt Commission 84
Huntington, S.P. 17
Hurricane Katrina 166–7, 187, 254–6

ideology 49–50, 124, 179–80, 237
immigration 11; policy 245–7; see also
ethnic politics

Immigration and Nationality Act (1952)

245

Immigration and Naturalization Service

246

impeachment 153, 154, 170, 177, 211,

231

imperialism 11, 277

independent regulatory commissions

108, 117, 198–200

isolationism 15–16, 51, 53, 259–60, 276

individualism 21, 37–41

initiative 42–3

Intelligence Reform and Prevention of

Terrorism Act (2004) 167

interest groups: business groups 108–11;

cause groups 114–15; and Congress

127; and the courts 109, 118, 224–5;

farm groups 113–14; public interest

groups 114–15; labour groups 111–

13; nature of 103–6; organisation of

106–8

International Criminal Court 278,

280–1

internet 186–7

Interstate Commerce Commission 108

Iran 272

Iran–Contra Affair 163, 264

Iraq Wars 53, 108, 170, 180, 187, 192,

250, 268–71, 283

issue-oriented politics 67–9

Israel 53, 54, 260, 271

Izaak Walton League 114

Jackson, President Andrew 202

Jay, John 15

Jefferson, President Thomas 6, 16, 91,

202

Jeffords, Senator 124

Jencks v. US (1956) 229

Jewish community 29, 32, 33, 107

John Birch Society 51, 52, 66, 108, 277

Johnson, President Lyndon B. 49, 70, 79;

election of 1960 31, 51, 85; election

of 1964 86, 90; election of 1968 85;

Grenada 263; success rate 125;

Vietnam War 262

Jones, C. 180

judicial activism 221; and Warren Court

229–30

judicial behaviour 220–1, 228

judicial process 220–1, 224–6

judicial restraint 221, 229–30

judicial review, nature of 219–22; see also

Supreme Court