Vocabulary
An act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies.
What is the Separation of Powers?
A group that focuses all of its energy on a single defining issue.
What is a Single-Issue Group?
This political party is one of the two biggest political parties in the U.S. and is usually associated with the color Blue
What is the democratic party?
This took place from May 14 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
What is the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
You have to be 18 years of age, a citizen of the United States of America, and registered to do this activity.
What is Voting?
An agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention over the counting of slaves in determining a state's total population
What is the Three Fifths Compromise?
This group advocates for the economic interest and benefits of its members.
What is an Economic Interest Group?
The action of selecting candidates to run for political office and choose candidates to represent the party
What is Nomination?
George Washington called this conference to settle a certain matter at Mt. Vernon
What is The convention of 1785?
a vote in which a substantial majority of members of a political party vote the same way
What is Party-Lined Voting?
Proposed a unicameral (one-house) legislature with equal votes of states and an executive elected by a national legislature.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
This group works to gain and or retain benefits for its members, or to make general changes for the general publics' wellbeing.
What is a Public Sector Interest Group?
Green Party, Democrat Party, Republican Party, Libertarian Party.
What are Political Parties?
A treaty between the United States and Britain that set the 49th parallel of latitude as the boundary between British North America and the US across the West.
What is The Convention of 1818?
form of voting in which voters look back at the performance of a party in power and cast ballots on the basis of how well it did in office.
What is Retrospective Voting?
Outlined a strong national government with three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.
What is the Virginia Plan?
The ability to inform the public and can use biased information to either persuade for their candidate or ruin another candidate.
What is Publicity and Mass Media Appeals?
This political party is an extreme leftist party
What is The Green Party
A Convention between the United States of America and the Napoleonic France, April 20, 1803
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
the theory of democratic elections in which voters decide what the government will do in the near future by choosing a certain political party with distinct stances on issues
What is Prospective Voting
A series of violent attacks on courthouses and other government properties in Massachusetts that began in 1786 and led to a full-blown military confrontation in 1787.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
The process of bringing a lawsuit
What is Litigation?
This party has views more conservative views than the Republicans
What is the Libertarian party?
Wrote the Texas Declaration of Independence, prepared a constitution, organized an interim government, and named Sam Houston commander-in-chief
What is the Convention of 1836?
assumes that political actors will make decisions based on their own benefit, carefully weighing all choices. retrospective voting. voting for a candidate because you like his or her past actions in office.
What is RC voting?