Voting Right Amendments
The constitutional amendment that guaranteed citizenship to anyone born on US soil including former slaves.
What is the 14th amendment?
This controversial policy is meant to increase election security but usually decreases voter turnout.
What is voter ID?
This policy requires voters to sign up prior to the election and decreases voter turnout.
What is limited government?
A gathering of people meet to debate and select their party's nominee in a public forum.
What is a caucus?
The constitutional amendment that ended poll taxes which stopped disadvantaged Americans from voting
What is the 24th amendment?
Regular people going door to door to educate people about their preferred candidate or party.
What is canvassing?
What the constitution establishes about political parties.
What is nothing?
A value that corresponds to all Americans being equally subject to our country's rules.
What is Rule of Law?
An election held within a party where only registered members of a party can vote for who their party's candidate should be.
What is a closed primary?
The constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
Doing this hardly ever creates the wanted result but instead helps the party the voter dislikes the most.
What is voting third party?
Increasing levels of this are usually associated with more conservative partisan leans.
What is age?
An American value that promotes the ability for businesses and workers to independently organize without intervention from the government.
What is Free Enterprise?
The institution which elects the President by having a slate of electors vote after their state is won by popular vote
What is the Electoral College?
The constitutional amendment that lowered the voting age to 18
What is the 26th amendment?
An election that's result changes the coalitions of each party, sometimes the result of a massive victory.
What is a critical election?
Increasing levels of this are usually associated with more liberal partisan leans.
What is education level?
The ability for someone to make their own choices by themselves
What is individualism?
A type of voting system where the candidate with the most votes wins all of the representation in an election.
What is winner-takes-all?
The constitutional amendment that allowed citizens of each state to directly elect their own senators.
An organization that connects regular people to the government.
What is a linkage institution?
This voting system has resulted in a two party system.
What is winner-take-all
The ability for everyone to have a chance to be successful in life.
What is equality of opportunity?
A type of voting system that allocates seats in a legislature based on percentage of votes each party gets
What is Proportional Representation?