Mora Final Exam 2310
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31 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 electoral college | elect the president |
| Texas constitutions Basic Characteristics | Popular sovereignty limited government |
| Texas Historical Characteristics | limited government with little centralized power |
| Texas Amendment Process | 2/3 vote in Texas House and Senate then majority of Texas voters most amendments are pushed through by interest groups |
| Texas 1869 Constitution | community property rights for women created a strong governor centralized all aspects like public schools, abolished county courts, and voting for slaves |
| Texas 1876 | reaction to the strong centralized government of governor EJ Davis |
| Marbury v. Madison | judicial review established |
| Political Culture | collective beliefs about the government conservative, liberal |
| voting participation | less than 50% vote in presidential less than 33% vote in congressional 20% do nothing at all only 10% take full advantage of political participation |
| early voting qualifications | white, own property, male |
| voting amendments | 15th right to vote for black men 19th women right to vote 26th voting age to 18 |
| political parties | a political organization acting as an intermediary between people and government with the goal of getting their candidates elected |
| role of media in politics | agenda setting providing political info socialization providing forum for discussion |
| media outlets regulated by the federal government | radio television |
| how lobbies access and influence legislators, the public, and courts | by direct lobbying, providing info, public relations and special events indirect lobbying and grassroots activities amicus curiae: friends of the court |
| characteristics of the american political system | conflict, competition, cooperation, community, compromise |
| Article 1 | establishes the legislature |
| Article 2 | establishes the executive branch |
| Article 3 | judicial branch |
| Article 4 | full faith and credit |
| Article 5 | Amendment Process |
| Article 6 | Supremacy clause |
| Checks and balances | the president checks the legislative the court checks the legislative the legislative checks the pres |
| President of the Senate | president pro tempore break ties |
| Speaker of the House | assign people to committees schedules votes John Bahner |
| political socialization | process of aquiring political individual opinions |
| executive power | plural executive there is limited administrative power, limited budget power strong tenure, strong veto power appoints and removes, issues executive orders, chief budget officer |
| elements of nation-states | population: sufficient numbers in order for the state to be self-sustaining permanence: acknowledgement of existence by other nations political organization: some form of government Sovereignty: supreme political authority, capable of enforcing its law, relitively free from external control territory: defined boundaries with distinct, recognizable features |
| Plato | he considered man rational by nature, there was a single truth, government was natural it was based upon the application of reasoning, he wrote the republic |
| Aristotle | was Platos student, in order it be truly human you needed to participate in government |
| Articles of confederation | State sovereignty national government had to be 9 out of 13 votes to pass laws congress could not tax the states rigidity |
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