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The formal body that selects the President of the United States, based on the individual votes of people in States
What is the electoral college?
The winning candidate is one who receives this, meaning the largest number of votes cast for the office
What is a plurality?
This represents the strong support of a political party, and its policy stands
What is partisanship?
This is a group of persons who seek to control government through the winning of elections and the holding of public office
What is a political party?
These are contests in which only one candidate is elected to each office on the ballot. Exceptions to this are typically city or town elections
What are single-member districts?
This term represents the current officeholder
What is an incumbent?
The practice of drawing electoral district lines in order to limit the voting strength of a particular group or party
What is gerrymandering?
This is the smallest group of election administration
Competing groups within society
What are factions?
This represents a general agreement among various groups on matters of fundamental importance
What is a consensus?
These are foreign-born residents who have not become citizens
What are aliens?
A term used to describe people who have no party affilliation
What is an independent?
This is a term used to describe any political party other than the two major parties, Democrats and Republicans
What is a third party?
This is a temporary alliance of several groups who come together to form a working majority in order to control a government
What is a coalition?
This occurs when two major parties find common ground, and work together
What is bipartisanship?
People who are eligible to vote
What is an electorate?
A narrow concern for, or devotion to, the interests of one section of a country
What is sectionalism?
The practice of awarding public offices, contracts, and other governmental favors to those who supported the party in power
What is a spoils system?
Voting for candidates of different parties for different offices at the same election
What is split ticket voting?
What is straight ticket voting?
These powers not expressly stated in the Constitution, but they are reasonably suggested--implied--by the expressed powers
What are implied powers?
Powers that can only be exercised by the National Government, they cannot be exercised by the States under any circumstances
What are exclusive powers?
These are powers that both the National Government and the States may exercise
What are concurrent powers?
Those powers delegated to the National Government in so many words, spelled out, expressly, in the Constitution
What are expressed powers?
This is a range of political views
What is a political spectrum?