This source names United States directly: "1840), based on his 1831 tour of the United States, examined how democratic societies could preserve individual liberty against the leveling pressures of equality."
Source Alexis de Tocqueville (New World Encyclopedia)
This source names United States directly: "the federal logic exemplified by the United States Congress, where the Constitutional Convention's Great Compromise of 1787 paired a House of Representatives apportioned by population with a Senate..."
Source Bicameral System (Britannica)
This source names United States directly: "decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 17, 1954, consolidating challenges brought on behalf of Black schoolchildren in Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware who had been..."
Source Brown v. Board of Education (National Archives)
This source names United States directly: "include the Bank of England, the United States Federal Reserve System, and the Bank of Japan."
Source Central Bank (Britannica)
This source names United States directly: "Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and a majority of other signatories."
Source History of the United Nations (UN)
This source names United States directly: "the practice its modern name in the United States; Thoreau had refused to pay taxes in protest of slavery and the Mexican American War, arguing that a citizen bears moral responsibility for..."
Source Civil Disobedience (Wikipedia)
This source names United States directly: "and discrimination in the United States between 1954 and 1968."
Source Civil Rights Movement (Wikipedia)
Source Confederation (Britannica)
This source names United States directly: "over congressional term limits in the United States, including the Twenty-second Amendment's presidential term limit."
Source Congressional Term Limits (Britannica)
This source names United States directly: "The United States Constitution, for example, requires a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress, or a convention called by two-thirds of the states, followed by ratification by three-quarters of..."
Source Constitution: Constitutional Change (Britannica)
This source names United States directly: "the two major political parties in the United States, alongside the Republican Party, and is the oldest political party in the country and among the oldest in the world."
Source Democratic Party (Britannica)
The United States implements the Vienna Convention domestically through the Diplomatic Relations Act of 1978.
Source Diplomatic Immunity (Cornell LII)
US states incorporate direct-democracy elements through statewide referendums and citizen initiatives.
Source EBSCO Research Starters: Direct Democracy
This source names United States directly: "Sandford was an 1857 United States Supreme Court decision holding, in an opinion written by Chief Justice Roger B."
Source Dred Scott v. Sandford (National Archives)
This source names United States directly: "mandated mechanism by which the United States elects its president and vice president, in which voters in each state formally choose a slate of electors rather than the president directly."
Source Electoral College (Britannica)
This source names United States directly: "Encyclopaedia Britannica entry on the United States Electoral College, its constitutional basis, elector allocation and the winner-take-all convention."
Source Electoral College (Britannica)
The United States is the primary and earliest still-operating example, federated in 1789.
Source Center for the Study of Federalism: What is Federalism?
This source names United States directly: "first organized political party in the United States, formed around Alexander Hamilton's supporters in the early 1790s to advocate a strong federal government, a national bank and close commercial..."
Source Federalist Party (Britannica)
This source names United States directly: "Commons, the Indian Lok Sabha, and the United States House of Representatives and most state legislatures, and it reached these systems largely through the shared inheritance of British..."
Source Election: Plurality and Majority Systems (Britannica)
The term originated in an 1812 Massachusetts redistricting law signed by Governor Elbridge Gerry.
Source Massachusetts Historical Society: The Gerrymander
This source names United States directly: "body rather than leave it, as in the United States, to ordinary courts."
Source Hans Kelsen (Britannica)
This source names United States directly: "Presidential systems such as the United States instead combine both roles in a single elected president."
Source Head of Government (Britannica)
Source Impeachment (Britannica)
This source names United States directly: "several major powers, including the United States, Russia, and China, are not parties, which has led to disputes over the Court's authority to issue arrest warrants against their nationals or..."
Source International Criminal Court (Cornell LII)
This source names United States directly: "was a court established in 1945 by the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and the Soviet Union under the London Agreement and Charter of August 8, 1945, to try major officials of Nazi..."
Source International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg (USHMM)
This source names United States directly: "A foundational influence on liberalism and on the United States Declaration of Independence."
Source Locke's Political Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Source Judicial Review (Britannica)
This source names United States directly: "The United States Congress's own procedure, tracked continuously on its own public record, documents the mechanism in full, though the same basic sequence, introduce, deliberate, vote, enact, recurs..."
Source The Legislative Process (Congress.gov)
This source names United States directly: "a foreign policy aligned with the United States."
Source Liberal-Democratic Party of Japan (Britannica)
This source names United States directly: "political label and movement in the United States in the mid twentieth century, developing internal variants from a minimal state associated with Robert Nozick to the anarcho capitalism associated..."
Source Libertarianism (Britannica)
This source names United States directly: "its lasting name after touring the United States in the 1830s, writing in Democracy in America that a minority struck by injustice has nowhere to appeal, since public opinion itself is the majority..."
Source Tyranny of the Majority (Wikipedia)
This source names United States directly: "Madison was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 24, 1803, arising after outgoing President John Adams commissioned William Marbury as a justice of the peace for the..."
Source Marbury v. Madison (National Archives)
This source names United States directly: "leader of the mid twentieth century United States civil rights movement."
Source Martin Luther King Jr. (Wikipedia)
This source names United States directly: "of Man and the Constitution of the United States."
Source Montesquieu (Britannica)
This source names United States directly: "Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States, on 4 April 1949 at the Departmental Auditorium in Washington, D.C., committing signatories to collective defence under Article 5."
Source Founding Treaty (NATO)
This source names United States directly: "the victorious Allied powers, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and the Soviet Union, prosecuted surviving leaders and officials of Nazi Germany for crimes committed before and during..."
Source Nuremberg Trials (National WWII Museum)
Washington's 1797 voluntary retirement is the classic first case; historians also point to the contested 1800-1801 Adams-to-Jefferson transition (see dissent).
Source President, Government Official (Britannica)
This source names United States directly: "Ferguson was an 1896 United States Supreme Court decision upholding a Louisiana law requiring racially segregated railway cars, ruling that state mandated segregation did not violate the Fourteenth..."
Source Plessy v. Ferguson (National Archives)
The United States is the paradigm presidential system, the office created 1787-88.
Source President, Government Official (Britannica)
The US CDC is named as the national public-health coordinating body.
Source Public Health (Britannica)
US states began ratifying constitutions and amendments by referendum in the 19th century.
Source Referendum and Initiative (Britannica)
This source names United States directly: "the two major political parties in the United States, alongside the Democratic Party, founded in 1854 by antislavery activists, including former members of the Democratic, Whig, and Free Soil..."
Source Republican Party (Britannica)
This source names United States directly: "ending on 20 December 1956 when the United States Supreme Court ruled bus segregation unconstitutional in Browder v."
Source Rosa Parks (Wikipedia)
This source names United States directly: "Economic strain, political polarisation and a covert United States destabilisation campaign preceded the military coup of 11 September 1973, led by Augusto Pinochet, in which Allende died."
Source Salvador Allende (Britannica)
This source names United States directly: "women's rights convention held in the United States, meeting in Seneca Falls, New York, from 19 to 20 July 1848 and organised chiefly by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott."
Source Seneca Falls Convention (Britannica)
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy states Montesquieu's doctrine had an enormous impact on the framers of the US Constitution.
Source Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Montesquieu
This source names United States directly: "The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States, established under Article III of the Constitution and given its organizational form by the..."
Source Supreme Court Procedures (Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts)
The 22nd Amendment imposes the two-term presidential limit.
Source Twenty-Second Amendment (National Constitution Center)
This source names United States directly: "Congress.gov, the official portal for United States federal legislative information, of how a bill moves from introduction through committee, floor consideration in each chamber and presidential..."
Source The Legislative Process (Congress.gov)
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