Elections
a body of people representing the states of the US, who formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president.
What is the electoral college?
diverse array of media technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication.
What is mass media?
Group that seeks to influence public policy.
What is an interest group?
an article added to the US Constitution.
What is an Amendment?
Supreme law of the United States of America.
What is the constituion?
What is an open primary?
news media creates public agenda by making people think things they want to show.
What is agenda setting and cutting?
Contributions made by a candidate, or his or her authorized committees or agents, or a political party committee or its agents.
What is soft money?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
What is the first Amendment?
Establishes legislature branch of the government and grants Congress enumerated powers.
What is the first article of the constitution?
a primary in which members of a party nominate its candidates by direct vote.
What is a Direct primary?
a group that watches the activities of a particular part of government in order to report illegal acts or problems:
What is a watchdog?
Donations to candidates for political office that are tightly regulated.
What is hard money?
amendment may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures.
What is the process of amending the consitution?
recourse in law through which a person can report an unlawful detention or imprisonment to a court and request that the court order the custodian of the person, usually a prison official, to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether the detention is lawful.
What is Habeas Corupus?
a poll of voters taken immediately after they have exited the polling stations
What is an exit poll?
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?
a 527 organization that pools campaign contributions from members and donates those funds to campaigns for or against candidates, ballot initiatives, or legislation.
What is a PAC?
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
What is the second Amendment?
act of a legislature declaring a person, or a group of people, guilty of some crime, and punishing them, often without a trial.
What is bill of attainder?
What is a push poll?
The process by which individuals percieve what they want to in media messages.
What is selective perception?
committees that may receive unlimited contributions from individuals, corporations, labor unions and other PACs for the purpose of financing independent expenditures and other independent political activity.
What is a Super Pac?
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th amendment?
Retroactively changes the legal consequences of actions that were committed, or relationships that existed, before the enactment of the law.
What is an ex post facto law?