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AP gov Unit 5 (crash course)
15th Amendment (1870) - ✅✅-race can't be a barrier to voting
17th Amendment - ✅✅-direct election of senators
19th Amdendment - ✅✅-women's suffrage

24th Amendment - ✅✅-Abolishes poll taxes

26th Amendment - ✅✅-Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18

arguments against the electoral college - ✅✅--anti-democratic ignores popular
vote
-voters have enough info to make informed decisions
-gives too much power to voters in swing states
-small states overrepresented

Arguments for the Electoral College - ✅✅--states retain importance in choosing
the president
-ensures geographic balance, can't focus only on densely populated areas
-guards against mob rule by uninformed voters

Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) - ✅✅ --banned soft money
-attp to reduce attack ads with "Stand by your Ad'' provision
-banned corps from airing pol aids within 60 days of general or 30 days of
primary
-banned corps from contributing directly to a candidate

campaign finance law - ✅✅
-Citizens United has allowed for a dramatic
increase in pol spending; candidates are noe less reliant on parties for
fundraising

candidate-centered politics - ✅✅-some voters focus more on the candidate
than their party identification

case work - ✅✅-service provided to constituents (helps win reelection)

, caucus - ✅✅ -a meeting of party members to choose a party's candidate for the
general election

changing news media - ✅✅-from tradtional print and TV to social media
changing political parties - ✅✅--political parties are weakening
-rise of candidate centered politics
-decrease in campaign finance regulation less candidate dependence on party

Citizens United v. FEC (2010) - ✅✅ --struck down soft money ban
-struck down corp ad timing ban
-corps are people, therefore they have free speech and can engage in unlimited
indep pol expenditures
-upheld ban on direct corp contributions to candidates

closed primary -✅✅-only registered party members may vote
congressional elections - ✅✅-open and closed primaries, causus
incumbency advantage

Congressional Incumbency Advantage - ✅✅--case work
-more PAC contributions
-name recognition
-media visibility
-franking privilege

Critical election - ✅✅-an election that leads to a party realignment (long lasting)
draft legislation - ✅✅-provide input on the wording of a bill
-interest groups in the room where law is written

electoral college - ✅✅ --the people who offically elect the president
-48 states give all their electoral votes to the candidate who recieves the most
votes in their state
-small states are overrepresented

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