Gov Unit 2

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Braceros Program

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Agreement between the Mexican and U.S. government. Allows Mexican workers to come to the U.S. legally and taken on temporary work due to the labor shorter across the U.S. sociological shift during WWII

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Two fallacies in the myth "Immigrants take American Jobs

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1. "American Jobs"- globally intergrated idea of jobs that there is not national identity

2. Notion that immigrants are the cause of american jobs loss is not effective analyses when there are many reason in a complex economy effecting unemployment

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What could happen to the parent of Anchor Babies

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Just because their child is born in the U.S. doesn't give the parent the right to citizen ship

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Graham v. Richardson

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You cannot discriminate against legal immigrants in granting welfare benefits

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Plyler v. Doe

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Children have the right to public school regardless of legal status,yet id doesn't prevent the parents from deportation

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How did Clinton reform the welfare program as they relate to immigration in 1996

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his 1996 welfare reform makes it harder on them to get benefits

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Equal Protection clause on immigration within U.S. jurisdiction

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Citizen or not you're still subject to protection under the Constitution

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Which portion of Arizona's SB1070 was upheld in U.S. supreme court

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Section 2b was upheld because "show me your papers" was unconstitutional

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Amnesty

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General pardon granted by a government, especially for political offense. In the U.S. it gives them a path to legalization.

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What bipartisan piece of landmark legislation did Reagan sign into law?

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1986 Immigration Reform and Control aka A.k.a. the Simpson-Mazzoli Act- an act to amendthe immigration and nationality act to revise and reform immigration laws. It also announced that minor children of parents granted amnesty by the law would get protection from immigration.

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What announcement did Reagan naturalization service commissioner make?

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Granted amnesty by the law would get protection from deportation

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What policy did George H.W. Bush put into effect when he was president in regards to undocumented immigrants

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Family Fairness Policy- families had to meet certain criteria and reapply annually. At the time period this plan provided protection for 40% of all undocumented workers in the U.S.

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Political socialization?

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introduction to individuals into political culture; learning the underlying beliefs and values on which the political system in based

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Political polarization

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the degree to which republicans have become more conservative and democrats more liberal. Making it difficult for politicians to compromise on important policy issues

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American exceptionalism?

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Patriotism which in the belief that the U.S. is the greatest country in the world

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Precinct Chair

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local party official, elected in the party's primary election, who's heads the precinct convention, and serves on the party's county executive committee

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Duverger's Law

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the observation that in a single-member district system of electing representative, a two party system will emerge

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Single member district

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one member for hundreds of people

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tea party movement

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Created after obama's election, a political movement that advocates lower government spending, lower taxes, and limited government. they've tried to influence the republican party

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Occupy Movement

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Political movement aimed at limited influence of wall street on big corporations in American politics. created by the following corporation bailouts in 2008. Libertarian anti-tax messages leads to less funding in public education

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Libertarian believes

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A person who supports the principles of individual liberty especially of thought and action

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Shivecrat movement

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Movement lead by Tx governor, Allan Shiver during 1950s. Conservative democrats in Texas supported Republican Eisenhower for the presidency because of many of those conservative democrats believed that the national democratic party had become too liberal

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Presidential Republicanism

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a voting pattern in which conservatives vote democratic for state offices but republican for presidential candidates.

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Blue dog democrats

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another name for conservative democrats, mostly in the south. They've become endangered in Tx

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Run Off primary

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a secondary primary election held between the two candidates who received the most votes in the first primary election if no candidate in the first primary election has received a majority

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Open primary

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a primary election in which any registered voter can participate in the contest, regardless of party affiliation

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closed primary

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a primary election in which only registered members of a particular political party can vote

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19th amendment

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ratified in 1913, allowed women to vote

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Poll Tax

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in state-imposed on voters as a prerequisite for voting; poll taxes were rendered unconstitutionally in national elections by the 24th amendment, and in state elections

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White Primary

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primary election in which only white voters are eligible to participate

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Requirements to vote in texas

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18 years, US citizen, resident of texas for 30 days, and resident of county for 30 days

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Moter Voter Law

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national act, passed in 1993, that requires states to allow people to register to vote when applying for driver's license

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reapportionment

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process that takes place every 10 years to determine how many congressional seats each state will receive, depending on population shifts

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Redistricting

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the process of redrawing election districts and redistributing legislative representatives in Tx senate, and U.S. house. This process usually happens every 10 years to reflect shifts in population or in response to legal challenges in existing districts

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Voting rights act of 1965

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Important legislation passed in order to ensure african americans would be guarantee the right to vote. Renewal several times since 1965, the act also prevents the dilution of minority voting strength.

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Preclearance

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provisions under section 5 of the voting rights act of 1965 requiring any changes to elections procedures or district lines to be approved by the U.S. department of justice or the U.S. district court for the district of columbia

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General election

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the election in which voters cast ballots to select public officials

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special election

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an election that is not helping on a regularly scheduled basis; in Texas, a special election is called to

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Early Voting

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a procedure that allows voters to cast ballots during the two-week period before the regularly scheduled election date

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Who benefits from early voting according to your textbooks?

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republicans