Unit 3 Vocab Flashcards
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What is a Two Party System?
Where two party run the elections.
Democratic Party
Favors a mixed economy
Republican Party
More indivdual freedom
Nominate
Enter as a candidate.
Campaign
An organized goal/operation
Political Party
An organization have certain political belief.
Ideology
Ideas of stuff.
Third Parties
A minor party (Usually)
Polticial Platform
Polticial goals and belifes
Election
A choice oragnized to vote for a leader or something else.
political spectrum
diagram that explains different ideologies
Public Policy
The princples (most of the time unwritten) of social laws
Conservative
a person whos die hard to change traditional values.
Liberal
Respceting other peoples opinion or anythinig different from their own.
Moderate
Average in amount, intensity Quality, or degree
Media
Mass comunictaion
Editorial
Opinion piece agreed by newspaper
Op-ED
Writing based on an writers opinion or idea about an issue.
Bias
Favoring an idea, things, etc
PAC
Political Action Committee
Super PAC
PAC that can raise the unlimted amounts of individual, unions, corps, and other communitys to spend on.
Citizen United v Federal Election Commission.
Supereme Court Case
15th Amendment
The right to vote for citizens of the US will not be denied by any state
19th Amendment
Granted woman the right to vote.