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| Group of persons who seek to control government through the winning of elections and the holding of public office |
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| What do political parties do? |
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Nominate Candidates for office
run campaigns
inform and activate supporters
act as a bonding agent to ensure good performances
Govern
Watchdog (The Loyal Opposition) |
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- Partisanship
- Bipartisanship
- Nonpartisanship |
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One Party System
Two Party System
Multi Party System |
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Examples Cuba, China, North Korea, Vietnam
"No Party Systems"
One Party: Oligarchs, government controlloed by a single group |
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| The nominee of two major parties automatically goes on the ballot |
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System in which several major and minor parties compete for public office
Examples: Great Britain and Germany |
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| Temporary alliance of several parties that come together to form a majority to win an election and control government |
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| What does the Constitution say about political parties |
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Nothing:
The framers were hoping that political parties would not start because they were partisan and bias. |
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Led by Alexander Hamilton of NY
- Ratification
- Strong National Government
- Strong commercial powers for the national government
- Manufacturing and urbanization
- LOose interpretation of the Constitution to give the national government more power |
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| The Anti Federalist Party |
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Led by Thomas Jefferson of Virginia
- Limited national government
- Limited commercial poewrs for the national gov
- Agri, small businesses and rural america
- strict costruction of the Constitution to protect states
- Having a written Bill of Rights |
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Anti-Feds
- Jeffersonians
- Jeffersonian Republicans
- Democratic Republicans
- Democratic Party in 1828 to today |
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| Denotation vs. Connotation |
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| First Governor of the territory of Florida in 1821, Jacksonville named after him. |
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- Began in 1854 as Third Party of Dissatisfied Whigs and Democrats dedicated to shopping the expansion of slavery
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| Republican Party Birthplace |
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| The Republican Party lost their first Presidential Election in |
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| 1856 and won in 1860 with Abraham Lincoln |
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| William Henry Harrison and John Tyler were exceptions |
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| What ended the First Dem Era |
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| Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson |
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| What ended the First Rep Era |
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| What were the issues of 1968? |
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