Key Documents
the first ten amendments to the US Constitution, ratified in 1791 and guaranteeing such rights as the freedoms of speech, assembly, and worship.
What is the Bill of Rights?
an official order or commission to do something.
What is a Mandate?
organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections.
What is a political party?
agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first frame of government.
What is Articles of Confederation?
"process by which individuals learn and frequently internalize a political lens framing their perceptions of how power is arranged and how the world around them is organized;"
What is political socialization?
a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.
What is the Consitution?
Permission from the government to do something or money recieved from the governmet for the permission to do something.
What is a Grant?
Each elector casts one vote following the general election. The candidate who gets 270 votes or more wins.
What is the electoral college voting system?
uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions.
What is Shays Rebellion?
Group that seeks to influence public policy.
Created on July 4th, 1776 establishing the United States indepedence from Great Britian.
What is the declaration of independence?
addresses the duties that states within the United States have to respect the "public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state
What is Full Faith and Credit Clause?
In an indirect primary, voters elect delegates who choose the party's candidates at a nominating convention.
What is a direct primary?
late-18th century movement that opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government and which later opposed the ratification of the 1787 Constitution.
What is Anti Federalists?
simply the intentional or unintentional slanting of news reporting toward one side due to the political views or cultural beliefs of journalist
What is media bias?
argued that federal power was bad and that the Constitution gives too much power to the federal government.
What is Brutus 1?
the action of extraditing a person accused or convicted of a crime.
What is Extradition?
Group typically supports supports lower taxes, free-market capitalism, restrictions on immigration, increased military spending, gun rights, restrictions on abortion, deregulation, and restrictions on labor unions.
What is the rebublican party?
What is federalists?
The supporters of the proposed Constitution
political journalism of elections that resembles coverage of horse races because of the focus on polling data and public perception instead of candidate policy, and almost exclusive reporting on candidate differences rather than similarities.
What is Horse race Journalism?
warning the power of factions and competing interests over the United States Government.
What is Federalist 10?
principle of government under which separate branches are empowered to prevent actions by other branches and are induced to share power.
What is checks and balances?
emphasizes social equality and equal opportunity. Democrats support voting rights and minority rights, including LGBT rights.
What is the democratic party?
introduced novel governmental doctrine and practices such as checks and balances,
What is the impact of the consitution?
a legislative seat that is likely to be retained with a large majority in an election.
What is a safe seat?