Answer: Keeping up with the Joneses is an idiom in many parts of the English-speaking world referring to the comparison to one's neighbor as a benchmark for social class or the accumulation of material goods. To fail to "keep up with the Joneses" is perceived as demonstrating socio-economic or cultural inferiority.
In the United States, the judicial branch "<span>can declare a law unconstitutional", since the judicial branch refers to the Supreme Court, which can act as a "check" on the legislative branch. </span>
One economic problem was that businesses were not as healthy. People started losing money because they had numerous investors and they couldn't find a way to pay them back because they couldn't earn as much as they received in investments which caused investors to lose money in reality which harmed the businesses.
Another is that the consumers were indebted more than it was normal. People were spending more and more money and they in reality didn't have this money earned so the debt started increasing dramatically and when they couldn't pay back the debts the bubble burst and an economic crisis was introduced.
Laws passed through congress have a direct impact on the court system, since it changes the way courts have to rule on the law. The Supreme court allows the court system to have some say in what laws are just by appealing their agreement with the constitution. The President doesn't directly pass laws, he has the power to veto congressional laws and through his endorsement behind them, but doesn't actually have the power to write, create or pass new laws himself, even if he's the one who technically signs them into law. As such, the supreme court checks the president less often than congress, because the president's actions affect the court's sphere of interest less often. Most interaction between the president and the court happen when the President heavily endorses a bill, gets it passed through congress, and then the court checks it. Some great examples are the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the National Recovery Administration, which were created through bills sponsored by Franklin Roosevelt as part of his New Deal reforms. The court struck them down as unconstitutional for various reasons, much to the dismay of FDR. In modern times, Obamacare almost had it's individual mandate requirement stuck down by the court a few years ago and elements of President Trump's muslim travel ban were struck down by the supreme court just in the last month.
