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Australian Ballot

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Voting secretly

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Caucus vs. Primary

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Caucus - Go to public area, ppl in community get together at 8 pm, first part of caucus for both parties candidates give speeches, for republicans after speeches given ballots and filled out secretly, but democrats have speeches then go into preference groups and heads are counted (not Australian, peer pressure)
Primary - Put thing in machine and no one knows how you vote

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Pardon

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Pre-emptively, just sentenced, but president comes in and says you don’t have to serve and if already in prison you just leave

If convicted still a felon, just no punishment

Can happen before someone is even charged of anything, can’t even charge now

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Reprieve

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President postpones punishment (serve, but not until next month)

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Clemency

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Taking mercy on ppl

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Commutation

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Reducing fine or time in prison (reduce punishment)

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Are the president’s pardon and reprieve and commutation powers just for federal or for everything?

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Federal; governors do pardons for states

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Bully pulpit

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Using the office of the presidency to speak to the American people in their presidential respect (ex. state of union address)

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Faithless elector

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Candidate wins electoral votes by winning popular votes, winner-take-all should get all votes, most states say you need to vote for the person who got the popular votes in your state, but sometimes there is no law that says this, elector can vote for basically whoever

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Power of the purse

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Power to give money legislation

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Executive department vs. organization

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Department strictly in control of executing bills congress passes, but if organization works alongside congress, not putting laws into place, just doing something and getting government assistance with that (like a contractor ig)

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Brokered convention

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No one wins majority, delegates can now choose whoever they want regardless of what the people said

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WHich party has superdelegates? What does the other party have?

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1.Democratic
2.Unpledged delegates/party insiders

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2000 election

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Bush managed to steal ALL of floridas delegates by 357 popular votes

Further recount for entire state, initial recount ppl were counting balots under certain circumstances but not in other counties, no uniform way of how ppl were supposed to count these ballots by hand, you’re now interrupting something that is in the constitution

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Are most of the states proportional voting? WHat were they a few years ago?

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Yes, just recently switched from winner takes all

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Oversight

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Congress’s ability to have hearings and grill ppl and test under oath, subpoena, conduct investigations, etc. (not constitutional)

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Nixon case

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Claimed executive privilege, didnt want to hand it over, court said you have to, not a matter of national security, executive privilege not in constitution, similar to NY times v. US

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Frontloading

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Holding caucuses/primaries earlier in the year to capitalize on

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Civil service

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Something in a public sector thats not political

20
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Contracting out

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Not enough workers to do certain things, instead of government making whole new agency, private businesses are paid to do it

21
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Statutory authority

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Powers not granted explicitly in the constitution

22
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WHen do primaries/caucuses start and end?

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Early february- june

23
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When does the general election start and end?

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First tuesday after first monday of november

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When are congressional sessions?

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Up until mid december before christmas break, then comes back like mid january

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How many total possible years can a president serve?

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10

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When does a presidential term end?

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Noon January 20th

27
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All democratic primaries/caucuses aware delegates on a ______ basis, whereas republicans sometimes have either _______ or ________

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proportional, winner-take-all, proportional