American Government 4

interprets the law

makes the laws

435

100

• president pro tempore
• majority leader
• majority whip 
• minority leader

• speaker of house
• majority and minority whip
• majority and minority leader

has greatest amount of power in Congress

conscience

Oliver Wendell Holmes. Society should shape the law instead of law shaping society

• Judges are bound by precedent
• Trial by jury
• William Blackstone, Commentaries on the law of England

Taft

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• give president greater control over budget, including limiting spending
• get rid of PACS
• Adopt modern system of accounting
• Adopt a flat tax

• establishes judicial review
• court can rule something unconstitutional

• power to tax is the power to destroy
• federal is supreme over the state

• ends segregation
• little girl wanted to go white school

accepts segregation

• Amendment 14 right to privacy
• abortion

cannot pray in school as a teacher

everson filed suit to reimburse parents for school bus

the state reimburses parochial schools for expenses associated with educating students

Miller convicted for mailing adult books

conviction for burning flag was overturned when supreme court ruled texas law unconstitutional

no prior notifications of rights under fifth amendment during police interrogation

U.S. gives Europe billions of dollars to help Europe after WWI

Courts have denied natural law ad have become more more liberal especially under Chief Justice Earl Warren

• Commentaries on the law of England
• law is based on the absolute Word of God
• natural law given to all men to help them know right from wrong
• basis of law in America until the 1900's 
• English Common Law spreads to England's colonists