Types of Citizen
This type of citizen contributes to food drives or cleans up a local park; they focus on character and obeying laws.
What is a Personally Responsible citizen?
This branch of government is responsible for making laws and includes the House and Senate.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This term describes a person's set of beliefs about the role of government and how society should be run.
What is Political Ideology?
In a "Two-Party System," any party other than the Democrats or Republicans is known as this.
What is a Third Party?
The President can use this power to "strike down" or refuse to sign a bill passed by Congress.
What is a Veto?
This citizen takes a leadership role in community organizations and helps coordinate efforts to solve local problems.
What is a Participatory citizen?
This is the legal process by which a foreign citizen or national can become a U.S. citizen.
What is Naturalization?
Generally speaking, this ideology favors more government involvement in the economy and social justice.
What is Liberal (or Left-wing)?
This famous Third Party focuses heavily on environmental issues and social justice.
What is the Green Party?
Congress can "check" a Presidential veto if they can gather this fraction of votes in both the House and Senate.
What is a two-thirds (2/3) majority?
This citizen looks at the "root causes" of social issues and seeks to change the system to ensure long-term fairness.
What is a Justice-Oriented citizen?
This branch, headed by the President, is responsible for carrying out and enforcing laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
Generally speaking, this ideology favors smaller government, lower taxes, and traditional values.
What is Conservative (or Right-wing)?
This Third Party believes in very limited government intervention in both the economy and personal lives.
What is the Libertarian Party?
The Judicial Branch uses this power to declare a law or executive action unconstitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
True or False: A Justice-Oriented citizen is primarily focused on following existing laws rather than questioning why those laws exist.
What is False? (They question the system to improve it).
This branch interprets the meaning of laws and decides if they are constitutional.
What is the Judicial Branch?
A person who falls in the middle of the political spectrum is often called this.
What is a Moderate?
One major role of Third Parties is to bring "this" to the attention of the public, which the major parties might ignore.
What are new ideas (or specific issues/under-represented viewpoints)?
While the President nominates Supreme Court justices and Cabinet members, this specific body of Congress must "confirm" or approve them.
What is the Senate?
In this landmark 1969 Supreme Court case, the Court ruled that students do not "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate" after they were suspended for wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam War.
What is Tinker vs Des Moines?
According to the Constitution, this specific branch has the sole power "to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization," meaning they are the only ones who can write or change the laws regarding how someone becomes a citizen.
What is the Legislative Branch (Congress)?
In this extreme left-wing political and economic system, the government (or the "state") owns all property and the means of production, theoretically eliminating social classes and private profits.
What is Communism?
Because it is so difficult for Third Parties to get on the ballot in all 50 states, they often have to spend most of their money just on this legal process.
What is gathering signatures (or Ballot Access)?
The Legislative Branch holds this "power of the purse," meaning they must approve the budget and funding for any programs the Executive Branch wants to run.
What is the power to tax and spend?