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Wwenipurary Bye cpendent Americans. The ol sred models of multiple anizations. But these, too, were ending to paralyze action. jointed to the Supreme ton and confirmed by h Bader Ginsburg was t d Greck and Roman reyes leadership in committeclik¢ feared by the representative: Court in 1993 by President Bil a 96-3 vote in the Senatc, Justic he second female, sixth Jewish, an member of the Court. When announcing her nominatior aton called her "the Thurgood Marshall of the women vement," and "neither liberal nor conservative” but instcad jerate and well-respected jurist who would be "a force f sensus building" on the Court. first African-American to sit on the Supreme Cou rgood Marshall was nominated to the high bench sident Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967. His appointm¢ bolized the politics of the times. A Democratic presid: a Democratic Congress has recently pursued through ° _major civil rights legislation in more than a centu ing down barriers and expanding opportunities grities and women. Marshall's career stands as a lart -life metaphor for that controversial period in Ameri nd whose secular and pragmatic Views itical agenda 4 so fitiets: ia many of their belicfs regishtos are relatively easy to lobby. They are Oper Le aecessible: as elected representatives they have to be sen to outside pressures, particularly when those Pressures , from their constitucncics. Lobbyists can also provide thing legislators need and want as they carry out their logis; responsibilities: information about how legislation wil] ; heir constituents, political support for the legislation inancial backing in the next election. For these Fei obbyists are generally welcome or at Icast tolerated in the flegislatures and in law-makers' of fices. \-TU vung agency: cd quan \merican Bar Association: L gislature: ché dé lap phap luGng vieén uat sy Doan Hoa Ky Sicameral le sureau: cuc, VU sentral Intelligence Agency (CIA): Co quan Tinh bao Trung ut sommittee on Crime Prevention and Control: Uy ban Phong cl ham ‘ommittee: Uy ban ‘ouncil cf Ministers: Hi déng B6 trudng ‘ouncil: hdi déng Jepartment of Land and Housing: Phong Nha dat department of Rural Development: Ban Phat trién Nong thon department of Treasury: Bo Ngan kho (Mj) department of Urban Development: Ban Phat trién D6 thi lepartment: phong. ban ; ne a AL ANTE ENS A a “or. BO Noi vu (bay gio Cnuyen than| intel ee ok sr Public Security) House of KEP" Ministry of th ‘Anz Ministry © aed senate and Space Administration (NASA): National Aeron ong va Khong gian (Quin i Nginh Hang khOng ve) © National Assembly: Quée HOi (Viet ras 5 Office of Budget Planning and Evaluation: Phong Qui ho sich va Dinh gid Office of Personnel Management: Phong T6 chtte Can bo People's Committee: Uy ban Nhan dan Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Assosiation (PMA): Hiép ho, eee (10 chi van dong hiinh lang chinh cho cac con am, Police Headquarters: Tong nha Canh sat Public Security Heg y Headquarters: $4 Cono ; a Sees and Fy, duarters: $8 Céng an (Viét Nam) han ee Chitng khogn 8 Commission: Uy ban Kiém tra T; Gidng trinh bién dich va phién dich tiéng Anh zl B-Dich nhiing cau sau day sang Viét nga: 1- The separation of powers is embodied in the Constitution's grant of legislative power to Congress, executive and other powers to the president, and judicial power to the Supreme Court and other federal courts. 2- Congress, the president, and the judiciary share various powers as well, so that they check and balance each other both directly and indirectly. YP - In the spring of 1973 the Scnate Select Committee on Presidential Activities of 1972, chaired by Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina, began its investigation before a national television audience. Nixon's former counsel, John Dean, became the star witness, revealing much of the president's involvement in the cover-up. 4- The First Continental Congress met in 1774 to pass resolutions denouncing the English Parliament and Crown. In 1776 the Second Continental Congress drafted a resolution-the Declaration of Independence-that proclaimed the American colonies to be free and independent states. - Central to the Constitution is the idea of popular sovereignty, which holds that government is based on the consent of the people and is accountable to the people for its actions. From this notion follows the idea of limited government, the restriction of government authority to express powers, which are powers specified and delegated to the national government by the Constitution. Since 1962 the Food and Drug Administration has had the power to order drugs shown to be ineffective or dangerous removed from the market. When profits are high, the drug industry has an obvious motive for attempting to prevent such bans. To keep its profitable products on the market, the major sv = - The political groupings that em pharmaccutieat ed in the Constitution and did not . eel the presidency of George Washing ror to its a0 being largely to Support OF Oppose this , They came into a be the assumption — by nati administrator A Revolutionary War debt, the taxation government of we protect. domestic industry, and imported ae a national bank to regulate cure; iaen supporters included commercial interes merchants, manufacturers, bankers, creditors, and speculato whereas farmers, laborers, debtors, and other less advanta members of socicty opposed him. Those who saw thcir inter adversely affected by Washington's policies turned to Tho: Jefferson, who had resigned from his cabinet position to | the royal opposition, ies are not M Parties tion it emerged during this period : "elgn policy orientations. Those who bac moBriish te n, the so-called Federalists, tended to be 1 ad negotiated to rote the treaty that Ambassador John ritain and ix. 0° CM the Official ctain et ert tae differed in their fo the administratig

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