- Industry: Education
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The College Board is a not-for-profit membership organization that was formed in 1900 with the mission to promote excellence and equity in education through programs for K–12 and higher education institutions, and by providing students a path to college opportunities, including financial support ...
Laws that govern the interactions and relations between nations, resulting from officials rules, treaties, agreements and customs.
Industry:Government
Trade that takes places across state lines. This is distinct from intrastate commerce, which takes place within a state, and foreign trade, which takes place between countries. Article I, Section 8, clause 3 of the Constitution gives the Congress the authority to regulate interstate trade, as well as foreign trade.
Industry:Government
Independent regulatory agency, which reports to the President. The ICC was created in 1887, and it regulates surface transportation that occurs across state lines. This includes trains, trucks, buses, water carriers, certain pipelines, and other forms of transportation. Among its functions are certifying carriers, regulates their rates and helping ensure that they provide efficient and sufficient service.
Industry:Government
A group of high-ranking military officers who represent the Navy, Army, Air Force and Marines. They assist the civilian leaders of the Department of Defense in integrating policies and programs, and advise the President and National Security Council when asked. The Joint Chiefs of Staff is headed by a Chairman.
Industry:Government
Belief that the Supreme Court has the right or obligation to perform judicial review.
Industry:Government
Section of the government that interprets the laws and administers justice. In the federal government, the judicial branch consists of: the Supreme Court, the Circuit Courts of Appeal, District Courts, and several special courts.
Industry:Government
Belief that the Supreme Court should not exercise judicial review often. People who support this view feel that justices, who are appointed, should not use much power to overturn the decisions of Congress, which is elected.
Industry:Government
Power of a court to refuse to enforce a law or government regulation which it believes to be unconstitutional. Chief Justice John Marshall articulated this right in the decision of Marbury v. Madison (1803). So far, the Supreme Court has ruled about 1500 congressional acts or parts of acts unconstitutional.
Industry:Government
Small group of people ruling a country, usually after a revolution or coup d'etat, but before a legally established government has been formed.
Industry:Government
Authority of a court to hear a case. A case cannot be tried in a court which does not have jurisdiction over it.
Industry:Government
