Judicial review is part of the United States' system of checks and balances on government. The Supreme Court has the power to review acts of the Legislative (Congress) and Executive (Presidential) branches to ensure they don't become too powerful or abrogate the Constitutional rights of the country's citizens.
1972 This year is marked as a black year in history due to the use of terrorism entering sport with the massacre of 11 Israel Athletes by Arab Gunman. Also this is the beginning of the biggest political scandal in modern times and the start of the Watergate Scandal.
1970s and '80s Were a Period of Change in American Society. This is Rich Kleinfeldt. And this is Ray Freeman with THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a VOA Special English program about the history of the United States. Today, we tell the story about some social and cultural issues of the 1970s and 1980s.or many in the 1980s, society's hero was the person who helped himself. Success seemed to be measured only by how much money a person made. The period of change came during the 1970s. For a while, these years remained tied to the social experiments and struggles of the 1960s.