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| the civilian employees of the national government who are responsible for implementing federal laws. |
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| a complex system of organization and control that incorporates the principles of hierarchical authority, division of labor, and formalized rules. |
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| The administrative process that creates rules that have the characteristics of a law. |
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| order issued by a superior court to one of inferior jurisdiction demanding the record of a particular case. |
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| Requirement that a minimum of four justices must vote to review a lower court case by issuing a writ of certiorari. |
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| an opinion written by a justice who represents a majority of the court. |
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| an opinion written by one or more of the justices who agree with the decision but for different reasons than those stated in the majority opinion. |
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| an opinion written by one or more justices who disagree with a decision. |
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| the belief that the Supreme Court should not become involved in questioning the operations and policies of the elected branches unless absolutely necessary. |
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| the belief that the Supreme Court should not become involved in questioning the operations and policies of the elected branches unless absolutely necessary. |
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| in the selection of lower federal court judges, deference shown to home-state senators who are of the same party as the president. |
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| issues determined by the Supreme Court to be better resolved by Congress or the president. |
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| anything the government chooses to do or not to do. |
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| market-based system of pollution control whereby individual businesses can buy and sell emission credits even while the total level of industry pollution is capped at some level. |
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| programs promising aid without time limit to anyone who qualifies. |
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| term characterizing the wide variety of social programs developed during the New Deal to help the poor, unemployed, disabled, and elderly. |
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| taxing and spending policies prescribed by Congress and the president. |
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| period of the business cycle characterized by high levels of unemployment. |
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| economic condition in which the supply of money overwhelms the capacity to produce, creating rising prices. |
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| approach to economic policymaking focusing on lowering the barriers to production on the assumption that supplies at the right price will create their own demand. |
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| a measure of the value of all goods and services produced in the US |
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| control of economic growth through management of the money supply by the Federal Reserve. |
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