One method of influencing the judiciary that is at the president's disposal is: the ability to fire federal judges the ability to appoint, with senate confirmation, all federal judges the ability to use executive orders to reduce federal judge's pay the use of binding presidential opinions that a president can send to federal judges informing them of how a case should be settled

i'd assume india mainly because of how isolated japan was.   plus it is a whole china away.

the reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in america focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of native americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).

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