Government

Government

Press
1. No prior restrictions
  1. National Security
2. Libel
  1. Printing Lies
3. Reckless disregard of truth
4. Journalists
  1. Commentators
Civil Rights
1. (1863)13th= No slavery
2. (1868) 14th
  1. i. Anyone born or naturalized is a citizen
  2. ii. Due process and equal protection clause
  3. cont ii. No 3/5th , all males 21 and up can vote
3. (1870) 15th= Voting cannot be denied due to race, color, or servitude
4. Plantation
  1. Plessy vs. Fergusons (1896)
    1. Seperate but equal
5. Jim Crow Laws
6. Brown vs. Board of Education (1954)
  1. NAACP: Seperate is never equal
7. (1920) 19th= Womens Sufferage
8. (1964) 24th= No pole taxes
9. (1971) 26th= 18 and up can vote
10. Voting Right Act of 1965
  1. No barriers to vote, 18 and up citizen, district to register
EPC
1. 1. Resonable Basis Test
  1. Things that cannot be changed
2. 2. Strict Scrutiny Test
  1. Race, Color, national again, first amend-religion
3. Intermediate Scrutiny Test
  1. Gender, religion (practice), disability
  2. i. Overwhelming powerful social purpose
  3. Must be at least equal
4. Civil Rights Act of 1964
  1. 1955 Federal Courts, Attorney General, Affirmative Action, Positive Steps
Bakke (1978): unconstitutional
1. Gratz/Grutter: Balinger (2003)
2. GPA point System
Voting
1. Suffrage
  1. Motor Voter act of 1993: DMV
2. Primaries, caucuses, convention
  1. Primaries
    1. Regular, Registered voters, can vote, 1/4
  2. Caucuses
    1. Only party, elites can vote, 3/4
Voting Systems
1. Winner takes all
2. Proportional representation
3. Districts
  1. Mulltimember
  2. Single member
4. %of votes= % of power
5. U.S. congress
  1. WTA single member
  2. 2 parties
  3. moderate
  4. Less representation
  5. candidate
6. Europe
  1. PR, multimember
  2. Multimembers
  3. Extremist
  4. more representation
  5. party
Electoral College
1. # state votes= # congress
2. Senate =100
3. House= 435
4. 48 states
5. WTA Multimember
6. Tie= House votes
7. 2 states
8. PR, Multimember
Reps
1. Older
2. Wealthy
3. White
4. Family
5. Christian
6. Men
7. Military
Dems
1. Women
2. Younger
3. Mix racially
4. Education
5. Poor-middle class
6. Single
7. Mixed religions
Media
1. The News
  1. Make Money
2. History
3. Newspaper
  1. Expensive
4. Press
  1. Telegraph= "wire service"
5. Negative Sensations
  1. Yellow Journalism
6. News
7. NY Times
  1. Wall Street Journal
  2. 300+ Journalists
8. Television
  1. Headlines: 24 hours network
    1. CNN, MNSBC, Fox
Private
1. Business Groups, unions members, form groups, professional/ Associate
2. Dentists, Doctors, Lawyers
3. private group have more power because they can fund their groups
Public
1. Issues
  1. Siera Club, PETA, NAACP, ACLU, NRA
2. Carrier Groups and public groups
3. rely on memberships and donations
4. "Free Riders"
  1. Are the ones that are getting helped from public groups but the free riders don't donate to the groups
Lobbying
1. meeting directly w/ congress
  1. push the govt to get the laws for every1
  2. Inside
    1. Aready Agrees
    2. Buy Meeting
2. Outiside
  1. "Grassroots"-push public, get people to push
  2. for changing the laws
  3. PAC's: politcal action allow to donate commitee $10,000
Meeting with Congress
1. Questions to asks:
  1. 1. Constituents: Address
  2. 2. Group or Individuals
  3. 3. Donate
House
1. Citizen for 7 years
2. 25 years old
3. live in district
4. 2 years, 100% relected, population
Senate
1. Citizen for 9 years
2. 30 years old
3. Lives in the state
4. Term=6 years 1/3 re-elected/ 2 years, 2 per state
Congress
1. President
  1. "Naturalized born citizen"
  2. 35 years old
  3. Lives in the states 14 years prior
  4. Terms= 4 years, 2 terms of 10 years
Every 10 years is a census
1. 1. count population
2. 2. Reappointment
  1. state going up= more reps
  2. Sates going down= less reps- minimum of 1 rep
3. 3 Redistricting
  1. variation has to be less than 1%.
4. 4. Gerrymandering
  1. maximize political, poeial groups
  2. Illegal way of Gerrymandering
    1. Large cities in all states are all democrats
  3. Legal way of Gerrymandering
    1. Dividing districts
  4. The term of gerrymandering comes from Gerry drew a salamander
Re-election
1. House: Gerrymandering= 97%
2. Senate: No Gerrymandering 88%
3. Gerrymandering affects 10%, 43 votes which is 2/3
Incumbants
1. 1. Gerrymandering (House)
2. 2. Name Recongnition
3. 3. Free Media
4. 4. Fundraising
5. 5. Franking free mail
6. 6. Park Barrel "Earmarks"
7. 7. Case work
8. 8. You don't pay attention
Lose?
1. 1. Scandal
2. 2. Blame the presidents party
3. 3. Redistricting
House Power Structure
1. "Speaker of the House"
2. 1. Calender (When)
3. 2. Committee (Who)
4. 3. Appoints Rule Chair (How)
Party Causes
1. % congress % seats
2. organized, moderate, sales district
3. Majority and minority leader- run the parties
4. Agenda ( what) (partisan)
5. Majority and minority whips- keeps the members in line
Senate
1. "Vice president is the persiding officer"
2. executive branch
3. 1. Tie Breaker
4. Majority leader (Calenders (When)
5. (16) committee chair (What, When, Who)
6. Moderate, Negotiation, compromise, majority and minority whips
7. Disorganized
Impeachment
1. House votes to bring final charges
2. Senate holds a trial
3. 2/3 remove
4. "Treason, Bribery, other crimes or misdeamonors
2 1/2 cases
1. 1. Andrew Johnson (D) (1867)
  1. Richard Nixon (R) Watergate Scandel
2. 2. Bill Clinton (D) (1998)
  1. Perjury
Oversight
1. "Whistleblower" program
  1. Iran-Contra
    1. Reagan
    2. Nicaragua
      1. Socialists- Gov't buy farms, tax records, contras
    3. Al Quada- Taliban
      1. Irag
        Bathists
The President
1. 5 roles
  1. 4 chiefs
    1. 1. Commander in Chief
      1. Sec. of Defense
        Runs Miltary
2. 2. Chief Diplomat
  1. Foreign affiars, Embassies, and treaties
3. 3. Chief Executive officer ( Chief of staff)
  1. Runs federal agencies
4. 4. The president is the chief persiding officer
5. Head of state- figure head ( Vice President)
6. 5. Legislative Leader
  1. 1. veto
  2. 2. Recommends laws
  3. 3. Executive orders and the budget
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1. Wars power resolution of 1973
  1. 1. if congress declares war
  2. 2. Congress allows use of troops
  3. 3. U.S.attacked
    1. 60 days/ 30 days removed equals a total of 90 days

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