Lets Party
Pick Who?
Money, Money, Money
2 plus the population
Prez
100
a group of political activists who organize to win elections, to operate the government, and to determine public policy.
What is Political Party
100
- the right to vote
What is Suffrage
100
Journalist who exposed corruption in politics and worked to break the finical link between business and politicians
What isMuckrakers
100
The term is used to refer to both the area within the electoral boundaries and its residents.
What is constituency
100
the authority to bring formal charges against a president (similar to an indictment in criminal proceedings) for “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
What is impeachment
200
supporters of the Constitution
What is Federalists
200
- A tax that had to be paid before you could vote also deprived blacks of voting rights. The tax, though only a couple of dollars, was often a sizable portion of working people's monthly income
What is Poll Tax
200
Donations to parties for party building activities such as conventions, voter registration and polling and related activities. It is exempt for the regulations as long as it is not directly used for campaigning
What is Soft Money
200
A district whose boundaries are devised to maximize the political advantage of a party or a racial or ethnic group is known as
What is gerrymander
200
The Presidents constitutional role as the head of the armed forces with power to direct their use
What is Commander in Chief-
300
3 CHARACTERISTICS OF AMERICAN PARTIES
What is citizens who consider themselves members of the party, (2) officeholders who are elected or appointed in the name of the party, and (3) professionals and activists who run the party organization at the national, state, and local levels
300
- A law passed by congress in 1965 that made it illegal to interfere with anyone’s right to vote.
What is Voting Rights Act
300
are created to disperse money to candidates and their campaigns, they are limited in what they can give to individual candidates to $5000 in each election, or $10,000combined in a primary and a general election.
What is PAC's
300
allowed more members, especially newer members, to share in important decisions. In this way, they made Congress more democratic. But by diffusing power, they also made it less efficient because the very number of subcommittees contributed to government gridlock.
What is “subcommittee bill of rights,”
300
Historically, assigned to ceremonial duties or partisan activities (such as being the attack dog during the campaign, leaving his or her running mate free to appear more presidential).
What is Vice President
400
THE THREE FACES OF A PARTY
What is The party-in-the-electorate The party organization The last party-in-government.
400
voting for candidates from different parties for different offices
What is . Split-ticket voting
400
free media, more public financing, more distance between office holders and donors, a constitutional amendment, immediate disclosure, and stricter enforcement.
What is Ideas for Reform
400
power to lay and collect taxes, coin money, declare war and raise and support a military, and regulate commerce with foreign governments and among the states.
What is what congress does
400
When the president receives a bill passed by Congress, what are his/her three options
What is he can sign it into law; he can veto it by sending it back to Congress, along with his objections, unsigned; or he can take no action, in which case the bill becomes a law after ten congressional working days.
500
is a process in which a substantial group of voters switch party allegiance, thus producing a long-term change in the political landscape.
What is Realignment
500
States whose Electoral College votes are not safely in one candidates pockets
What is battleground states (or swing states)
500
Whitewater and Halliburton
What is Democratic and Republican Corruption
500
You support my bill, and I'll support yours.
What is Reciprocity
500
It says that the president can use troops abroad under three conditions: when Congress has declared war, when Congress has given the president specific authority to do so, or when an attack on the United States or its military creates a national crisis.
What is War Powers Resolution of 1973
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