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28 Cards in this Set
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What is the definition of a political party?
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Groups of people who seek to control the government by winning elections and holding public office
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What are the two current major political parties in the United States?
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Republicans and Democrats
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What are the four major things that political parties try to do?
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1.Nominate Candidates \
2.Informing and Firing Up Supporters 3.Governing 4.Acting as a Workdog |
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What is the definition of Partisanship?
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A strong belief in one's party and what the party stands for
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What is the definition of a birpartisanship?
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When parties work together on an issue. Example: When rep and Dem work to keep 3rd parties from being popular
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What is an Incumbent and why is an incumbent usually hard to beat in an election?
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Incumbent - A candidate running for an office that already holds that position. Incumbents are hard to beat because they have experience and trust
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What does the Constitution say about political parties? How did George Washington feel about political parties? How do we know?
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The Constitution does not say anything about political parties. George Washington warned people about them in his Presidential Farewell Address
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What were the first two factions in American history? What are they arguing about?
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First two factions were the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists. They both contributed to the document and kept the other from being too powerful
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What are the four types of Minor or Third Parties that were discussed.
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Ideological Parties - Centered on a specific worldview
Single Issue Parties - Focus on one man policy issue Economic Protest Parties - Unhappy with the economy and want it to change Splinter Parties - Broke off from a major party because of an issue. |
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Examples of the four types of Minor or Third Parties
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Ideological - Socialist Party (based on ideas of Marxism), Libertarian Party (Prevent - Individualism and small government)
Single Issue - Free Soil (1840s and 1850s anti slavery) , Know Nothing (1850S Anti Irish Catholic immigration) Economic Protest - Populist Party (1890s wanted to help farmers) Splinter - Dixiecrats (1948 Segregation) , Progressive (1912 by Teddy Roosevelt) |
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Minor parties generally don't win elections, so why are they important? What is a historical example of this?
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They often play "spoiler" they can takes voters away from one of the major parties. In the Republican Part of 1912 this happened and this forced Rep and Dem to listen to minor parties
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What is usually considered a victory for a minor party?
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Having a major party pick up one of their issues and make it part of the major party's platform. Example: The Democrats called for the Free Coinage of Silver in 1896
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What is the definition of an interest group?
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An interest group is an organization that is determined to encourage or prevent changes in public policy without trying to be elected.
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What are three ways that political parties and interest groups are alike?
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They want to get people involved with the government, involved with Public Policy (Government Laws + Program), need members, need money, and use media.
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What are Two ways that political parties and interest groups are different/?
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Political Parties want to win elections and make public policy, Interest Groups want to influence public policy, they are also generally narrow and have one goal or issue.
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Be able to explain how the interest group that you did your project on was formed and how it tries to shape public policy
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - formed in 1980 and was uses campaigns/ nudity to show awareness
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Know the names and political parties of the following federal elected officials:
President, Vice President, Us Senators, 1st District House of Representative, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th |
Obama and Joe Biden (D) , 1st- Alan Nunnelee (R) , 2nd - Benie Thompson (R), 3rd - Gregg Harper (R) , 4th - Steven Palazzo (R)
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Governor -
Lt. Governor - Secretary of State - State Treasurer - State Auditor - Commissioner of Agriculture - |
Governor - Haley Barbour (R)
Lt. Governor - Phil Bryant (R) Secretary of State - Delbert Hosemann Treasurer - Tate Reeves Auditor - Stacey Pickering Commissioner of Agriculture - Lester Spell |
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What is the job description of the last four people on state officials list?
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Secretary of State - Keeps up with public lands, publications, non-profit organizations
State Treasurer - Deals with budget issues State Auditor - Makes sure that gov agencies are keeping accurate records and spend money on what they are supposed to spend it on. Commissioner of Agriculture - Deals with ag issues, runs the fairgrounds |
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How is voting for president different from voting for all of the other positions in our government?
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We don't elect the president, we elect people who elect the president
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How do we determine how many electoral votes that each state gets?
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Based on the number of senators and number of Us House of Representatives
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How many total electoral votes does MS currently have? How many total electoral votes are there? How many does a candidate need to win?
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Ms has 6, there are 538 total electoral votes and a candidate needs 270 to win, over 50%
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What do we mean when we say that the electoral college system is a winner take all system
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It's where the winner of the primary or electoral college vote takes all of the states convention or electoral college delegates
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What are the three potential with the electoral college?
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Sometimes the candidate with the most votes doesn't win
Electors don't have to vote the way people tell them to An election might have to be decided by the US House of Rep |
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4 reasons why we keep the electoral college
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1.The way we have always done it
2. Amending the Constitution is a pain 3. Makes small states relevant 4. We can figure out a winner quickly and clearly |
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Define initiative
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An initiative allows the people to propose a piece of legislation (law) directly without the help of their State Senators or Representatives
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Define Referendum
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A referendum is the actual vote on an initiative. If the initiative passes the State Constitution is actually changed.
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Define - Initiative 26 27 and 31
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26- Would amend the state Constitution to define a person as every human being from the moment of fertilization
27 - Would require voters to show a government issued picture ID at the polls 31 - Would restrict the government from using Eminent Domain to take property and transfer it to a private entity for a period of time. |
