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| The New Deal was a series of economic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1936. They involved presidential executive orders or laws passed by Congress during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
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| De jure (in Classical Latin de iure) |
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| is an expression that means "concerning law" |
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| means "concerning fact". The terms de jure and de facto are used instead of "in law" and "in practice", respectively, when one is describing political or legal situations |
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| a doctrine adopted by the Supreme Court of the United States to determine under what circumstances limits can be placed on First Amendment freedoms of speech, press or assembly |
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| the aggregate of individual attitudes or beliefs. |
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| refers to virtually any voluntary association that seeks to publicly promote and create advantages for its cause. It applies to a vast array of diverse organizations. This includes corporations, charitable organizations, civil rights groups, neighborhood associations, professional and trade association |
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| Examples of direct lobbying include: |
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Meeting with legislators or their staff to discuss specific legislation.
Drafting or negotiating the terms of a bill.
Discussing potential contents of legislation with legislators or staff.
Meeting with officials of the executive branch to influence testimony on a legislative proposal.
Urging a Presidential or gubernatorial veto |
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| One of the most commonly used indirect lobbying techniques |
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| is constituent lobbying, whereby members of an organization write, phone, and e-mail legislators to communicate their concerns. When done correctly, this type of grassroots |
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| Almost everyone gets his or her information about world, national, and local affairs from the mass media. This fact gives both print and broadcast journalism important functions that include influencing public opinion, determining the political agenda, providing a link between the government and the people, acting as a government watchdog, and affecting socialization |
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| Functions of Political Parties |
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| perform an important task in government. They bring people together to achieve control of the government, develop policies favorable to their interests or the groups that support them, and organize and persuade voters to elect their candidates to office. Although very much involved in the operation of government at all levels, political parties are not the government itself, and the Constitution makes no mention of them. |
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| Political action committee |
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| is a type of organization that campaigns for or against candidates, ballot initiatives or legislation.[1] At the federal level, an organization becomes a PAC when it receives or spends more than $1,000 for the purpose of influencing a federal election, according to the Federal Election Campaign Act.[2] At the state level, an organization becomes a PAC according to the state's election laws. |
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| a primary in which any registered voter can vote (but must vote for candidates of only one party) |
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| a primary election in which you can only vote for the party of which you are a declared member |
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| Australian ballot, also called secret ballot |
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| the system of voting in which voters mark their choices in privacy on uniform ballots printed and distributed by the government or designate their choices by some other secret means |
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| represent unions, which work to increase wages and improve working conditions for both skilled and unskilled workers. Individual workers have very little power, but banded together, they can wield significant influence. Labor unions have been a significant part of American economic and political life since the late nineteenth century. At the peak of the unions’ influence, roughly one-third of American workers belonged to labor unions |
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| Article VI, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution, known as the Supremacy Clause |
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| establishes the U.S. Constitution, Federal Statutes, and U.S. Treaties as "the supreme law of the land." The text decrees these to be the highest form of law in the U.S. legal system, and mandates that all state judges must follow federal law when a conflict arises between federal law and either the state constitution or state law of any state. |
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| The 14th amendment gave birth to the incorporation theory |
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| which incorporates the limits of the federal government to the states. Before then the states could restrict rights with police power. |
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| A long lasting effect of the events of a paticular time on political opinions of those who came of a political age at that time. |
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| An elected official or political party leader who attends a presidential nominating convention and who may or may not have made a commitment to vote for a candidate. |
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| To maintain Liberty-the greatest freedom of the individual that is consistent with the freedoms of others.Also to maintain Order- a state of peace and security. |
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| An agreement among the members of an organized society or between the governed and the government defining and limiting the rights and duties of each |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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| was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution. |
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| is a structure of government in which the powers of the government are separated into three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial.[1] This came about because the delegates saw the need to structure the government in such a way to prevent the imposition of tyranny by either majority or by a minority |
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| is the institution that officially elects the President and Vice President of the United States every four years. The President and Vice President are not elected directly by the voters. Instead, they are elected indirectly by "electors" who are elected by popular vote on a state-by-state basis. |
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| Unitary (e.g., China, France, Japan, United Kingdom) |
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| the central government holds all the power. Lower-level governments, if they exist at all, do nothing but implement the policies of the national governmen |
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| Federal (e.g., United States, Germany, Australia, Canada) |
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| this system has a mix of national and state or local governments. The federal government usually trumps local governments in matters of defense and foreign policy, but local governments have a great deal of say over most other policy areas. Sometimes local governments administer national policies, which means that, in practice, the “national” policy varies a great deal from place to place |
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| Confederate (e.g., Confederate States of America, Belgium) |
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| The vast majority of political power rests with the local governments; the central federal government has very little power. Local governments have a great deal of freedom to act as they wish, but this freedom often leads to conflicts between states and the federal government. In some cases, a confederacy is little more than an alliance between independent states. |
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| Those who supported ratification of the Constitution and creation of a federal goverment with a strong central union. |
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| Those who opposed ratifacation of the Constitution and opposed creation of a Federal goverment with a strong central union. |
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A way to compromise on legislative representation. Creates a Bicameral(two house) legislature.
House of Representatives whereby representatives are elected based on state population.
Senate whereby each state gets two representatives. |
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| Examples of Direct Democracy |
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Town meeting,or Petition..
Initiative-where voters can propose a law or constitutional ammendment.
Referendum-where the legislature refers measures to the voters for their opinion.
Recall- allows citizens to dismiss a state official before his term is up. |
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| is a theory about the proper relationship between government and the states, portraying the states as powerful components of the federal government — nearly equal to the national government |
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| was coined in the 1930s and acknowledges a need for cooperation between state and federal governments. |
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| is censorship imposed, usually by a government, on expression before the expression actually takes place. |
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| a condition required to establish libel against public officials or public figures and is defined as "knowledge that the information was false" or that it was published "with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not." Reckless disregard does not encompass mere neglect in following professional standards of fact checking. The publisher must entertain actual doubt as to the statement's truth |
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| Examples of Cooperative federalism: |
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| Federal grants-in-aid programs and other block grants; State aid in conducting, financing, and regulating elections; and State aid in helping handle federal criminals. |
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| The ENUMERATED, or EXPRESS, powers of Congress |
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| are those powers (listed or mentioned) in so many words in the Constitution as grants of authorities to Congress. |
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| IMPLIED POWERS of Congress |
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Are not listed or mentioned in the Constitution;
But are deemed by Congress and the U.S. Courts to be
REASONABLY IMPLIED from the enumerated, or expressly
delegated, powers of Congress. |
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make up the sphere of political authority allocated to the states by the
U.S. Constitution. |
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| constitute the sphere of authority shared by the states and the national government under the U.S. Constitution |
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| Police powers are granted to states in the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, |
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| which reserves to the states the rights and powers "not delegated to the United States," which include protection of the welfare, safety, health and even morals of the public. Police powers denotes the basis for many regulatory subjects, such as licensing, inspection, zoning, safety regulations, and working conditions as well as law enforcement. Police powers may be used, for example to detain people or search things like vehicle. |
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| powers denied to both national and state governments |
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| describes a situation in which one party controls the White House and another party controls one or both houses of the United States Congress |
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| are organized at the local (usually county), state, and national levels. Party leaders and activists are involved in choosing people to run for office, managing and financing campaigns, and developing positions and policies that appeal to party constituents. The national party organizations play key roles in presidential elections. |
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| of or relating to a major American political party of the early 19th century favoring a strict interpretation of the Constitution to restrict the powers of the federal government and emphasizing states' rights |
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| Public Office Requirement |
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AGE RESIDENCY/CITIZENSHIP
President of United States 35 14 yrs. Resident in Nation,
Natural Born Citizen
United States Senator 30 Inhabitant of State,
9 yrs. Citizen
Representative in Congress 25 Inhabitant of State,
7 yrs. Citizen
Governor 30 7 yrs. Inhabitant of State,
Citizenship Required
Lt. Governor 30 7 yrs. Inhabitant of State,
Citizenship Required
Attorney General 30 7 yrs. Inhabitant of State,
(Must be Member of Bar of Supreme Court) Citizenship Required |
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| a lifelong process by which people form their ideas about politics and acquire political values. The family, educational system, peer groups, and the mass media all play a role. While family and school are important early in life, what our peers think and what we read in the newspaper and see on television have more influence on our political attitudes as adults. |
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| A ballot that has all candidates for a certain party under the name for this party is considered a "party-column ballot". It tends to encourage "straight ticket" voting. |
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| a ballot on which the candidates are listed alphabetically, with or without their party designations, in columns under the office for which they were nominated. |
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Name forms of Goverment and define
Clue:A.T.T.A.D |
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A:Aristocracy-where the power of government is held by an upper class.
T:Theocracy-Rule by God everything is rooted in rekigion/No separation of church and state.
T:Totalitarian Government-Where a single ruler or group controls all aspects of political social and economic life in a country.
A:Authoritarian Government-Where the ruler or group controls only the government and not social or economic life.
D:Democracy-A system of government in which political authority is vested in the people. |
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| Our Economic system defined |
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| Capitalism is an economic system that is based on private ownership of the means of production and the creation of goods and services for profit |
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