Explain the role of minor parties in promoting the democratic process. How might they detract from it?
What will be an ideal response?
An ideal response will:
1, Describe how the two-party system stymies the inclusion of minor parties into government, specifically noting that minor parties do have some effect on the main parties by changing the focus of pre-election policy.
2, Explain the controversy over the way that minor parties can alter the outcome of an election and thereby detract from the democratic process by circumventing the election of a potentially more popular candidate.
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Why was slavery allowed by the Constitution?
What will be an ideal response?
The roots of all Western political thought are found in which of the following philosophical camps:
a. theory of becoming b. theory of being c. theory of forms d. a and b e. b and c
Implementation is considered to be the "action phase" in which plans and policies are put into operation
a. True b. False
To what situation was historian T.H. Fehrenbach referring when he stated that "Democrat politicos bluntly indicated that power would be won depending on who outfrauded whom"?
A. the 1873 gubernatorial election that led to Reconstruction governor Edmund J. Davis's defeat. B. Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna's suspension of the powers of the Mexican Congress and local governments C. removal of Texas governor Sam Houston for refusing to take a loyalty oath to the Confederacy when the Civil War broke out D. limitation of Republican delegates to the convention that wrote the 1876 Texas Constitution.