Strategic planning is an organization 's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy. It may also extend to control mechanisms for guiding the implementation of the strategy.
Supremacy Clause. The Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution (Article VI, Clause 2) establishes that the Constitution, federal laws made pursuant to it, and treaties made under its authority, constitute the supreme law of the land.
State government officials were frustrated by the federal government's use of the supremacy clause, and the way it prevented them from passing laws they felt necessary. John was hoping that his bill would be voted into effect, because then it would have power over state and local laws, due to the supremacy clause.