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POLITICAL PARTIES

POLITICAL PARTIES. ORGANIZATION OF INDIVIDUALS WITH COMMON INTEREST WHO ORGANIZE TO WIN ELECTIONS, TO OPERATE THE GOVERNMENT & THEREBY INFLUENCE GOVERNMENT POLICY. EARLY AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES.

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POLITICAL PARTIES

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  1. POLITICAL PARTIES ORGANIZATION OF INDIVIDUALS WITH COMMON INTEREST WHO ORGANIZE TO WIN ELECTIONS, TO OPERATE THE GOVERNMENT & THEREBY INFLUENCE GOVERNMENT POLICY

  2. EARLY AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES • AMERICA HAS HAD A TWO PARTY SYSTEM FOR MANY YEARS, BUT THERE ARE OTHER POLITICAL PARTY SYSTEMS: • TWO PARTY • Democratic and Republican • MULTI PARTY • Three or more parties Canada (3) Germany (5) Israel (20+) • ONE PARTY • People and government are the same China (Communist Party)

  3. EARLY AMERICAN PARTIES • FEDERALIST • LED BY ALEXANDER HAMILTON • STRONG CENTRAL GOVERNMENT • LIKE/WANTED CONSTITUTION

  4. EARLY AMERICAN PARTIES • ANTI- FEDERALIST • THOMAS JEFFERSON LED • LIMIT POWER OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT (FEDERAL GOVERNMENT) • BELIEVED IN STATES RIGHTS • BELIEVED IN INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS (BILL OF RIGHTS) • BECAME THE DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICANS

  5. EARLY AMERICAN PARTIES • WHIGS: • 1830s OPPOSITION TO DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICANS • DEMOCRATS: • WHAT WAS LEFT OF DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICANS • THESE SPLIT OVER ISSUE OF SLAVERY IN 1854

  6. EARLY AMERICAN PARTIES • DEMOCRATS: 1854 • PRO SLAVERY SOUTHERN PARTY • REPUBLICANS • ANTI SLAVERY NORTHERN PARTY • PARTY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN - NO SOUTHERN STATE VOTED FOR LINCOLN - SO FELT HE DID NOT REPRESENT THEM - SO THEY SECCEEDED FROM THE UNION (CIVIL WAR)

  7. THIRD PARTIES ROLE IN USA • SMALL PARTIES THAT DO NOT WIN MAJOR ELECTIONS BUT DO INFLUENCE OUT SOCIAL, ECONOMIC OR POLITICAL LIFE • SINGLE ISSUE: 1 THING • IDEOLOGICAL: IDEALS • INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES: PERSON

  8. THIRD PARTIES ROLE IN USA • POPULIST PARTY • COMBINATION OF FARMERS & LABORERS • CALLED FOR DIRECT ELECTION OF SENATORS: (17 AMEND) • CALLED FOR AN 8 HOUR WORKDAY

  9. THIRD PARTIES ROLE IN USA • PROGRESSIVE PARTY • BULL MOOSE PARTY • PROMOTED DIRECT PRIMARY TO GIVE MORE VOICE IN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS • IDEA FOR POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY • INITIATIVE • REFERENDUM • INTENDED TO GIVE VOTERS MORE POWER TO MAKE LAWS

  10. THIRD PARTIES ROLE IN USA • PROHIBITION PARTY • ALSO CALLED SINGLE ISSUE PARTY • DON’T LAST LONG • FADE AWAY WHEN ISSUE NO LONGER IMPORTANT • 1872, AGAINST ALCOHOL AND WANTED TO BAN THE SALE OF ALCOHOL

  11. THIRD PARTIES ROLE IN USA • SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY • IDEOLOGICAL PARTY BASED ON SOCIALISM WHERE GOVERNMENT HAS MUCH CONTROL OVER LIVES OF INDIVIDUALS

  12. THIRD PARTIES ROLE IN USA • COMMUNIST PARTY • IDEOLOGICAL PARTY BASED ON KARL MARX COMMUNIST IDEALS WHERE GOVERNMENT OWNS ALL MEANS OF PRODUCTION

  13. THIRD PARTIES ROLE IN USA • LIBERTARIAN PARTY • IDEOLOGICAL PARTY BASED IDEA THAT GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT BE INVOLVED IN PEOPLES LIVES

  14. THIRD PARTIES ROLE IN USA • INDEPENDENT • NO PARTY AFFILIATION • RUN WITHOUT PARTY BACKING • H. ROSS PEROT 1992

  15. THIRD PARTIES ROLE IN USA • REFORM PARTY • IDEALOGICAL PARTY THAT PROMOTES REFORMS IN SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT • ROSS PEROT 1996

  16. THIRD PARTIES ROLE IN USA • OBSTACLES TO THIRD PARTIES • THESE DO NOT WIN MAJOR ELECTIONS BECAUSE THEY DO NOT HAVE THE MONEY OR NUMBERS TO WIN BUT THEY ARE GAINING POWER

  17. PARTY SYSTEMS IN WORLD • TWO PARTY SYSTEM: • USA & GREAT BRITIAN • MULTI PARTY SYSTEM: • GERMANY (5), ISRAEL (20+), CANADA (30) • COALITITION GOVERNMENTS • COMPETE FOR GOVERNMENT CONTROL • ONE PARTY SYSTEM: • CHINA, CUBA, NORTH KOREA, VIETNAM • PARTY AND GOVERNMENT NEARLY THE SAME

  18. DIFFERNCES IN TWO PARTIES OF USA • WHAT PARTY’S SYMBOL?

  19. DIFFERNCES IN TWO PARTIES OF USA • WHAT PARTY’S SYMBOL? • NICKNAME: GRAND OLD PARTY

  20. WHAT PARTY’S PLATFORM? PRO LIFE DEATH PENALTY GOOD LESS INVOLVEMENT TRICKLE DOWN EFFECT ECONOMY RIGHT TO GUNS AGAINST GAY MARRIAGES WHAT PARTY’S PLATFORM? PRO ABORTION LIMIT DEATH PENALTY GOVM’T REGULATION OF ECONOMY HIGHER TAXES MORE INVOLVEMENT IN LIFE GUN CONTROL DIFFERNCES IN TWO PARTIES OF USA

  21. WHAT PARTY’S PLATFORM? REPUBLICANS WHAT PARTY’S PLATFORM? DEMOCRATS DIFFERNCES IN TWO PARTIES OF USA

  22. WHAT PARTY?

  23. WHAT PARTY?

  24. PLATFORM • A series of statements expressing the party’s principles, beliefs, and positions on election issues. • Each individual part of the platform is called a plank. • Platforms communicates to voters what the party claims it will do if it wins.

  25. CH 9 SECT 2: Role of Political Parties Today ORGANIZATION OF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES

  26. NATIONAL PARTY ORGANIZATION • EACH PARTY HAS A NATIONAL COMMITTEE • RAISE FUNDS PRESIDENT AND ORGANIZE NATIONAL CONVENTION • DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE • Debbie Wasserman SchultzNATIONAL CHAIRPERSON • REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE • REINCE PRIEBUS NATIONAL CHAIRPERSON

  27. NATIONAL CONVENTION MOST IMPORTANT JOB IS TO NOMINATE A CANDIDATE TO RUN FOR THE PARTY IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION HELD ONCE EVERY 4 YEARS USUALLY ONLY WORK ON NATIONAL ELECTIONS

  28. STATE PARTY ORGANIZATION • 50 OF THESE FOR EACH PARTY • NC DEMOCRATIC PARTY • NC REPUBLICAN PARTY • KEY JOB: GET CANDIDATES ELECTED TO STATE OFFICES AND SOMETIMES HELP IN NATIONAL ELECTIONS • GOVERNOR, ATTORNEY GENERAL, STATE LEGISLATORS, ETC

  29. LOCAL PARTY ORGANIZATIONS • 1000s OF THESE FOR BOTH PARTIES • ROBESON COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY • ROBESON COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY • WORK ON ALL THREE LEVEL ELECTIONS • NATIONAL, STATE AND LOCAL

  30. LOCAL PARTY ORGANIZATIONS • DIVISIONS OF LOCAL LEVELS • PRECINCT: GEOGRAPHICAL AREA THAT CONTAINS A SPECIFIC NUMBER OF VOTERS • ONE MAN, ONE VOTE • SMALL TOWN/CITY, NEIGHBORHOODS • WARDS: SEVERAL CONNECTED PRECINCTS TOGETHER TO MAKE UP A LARGER ELECTION UNIT

  31. LOCAL PARTY ORGANIZATIONS • POLITICAL MACHINES: • STRONG LOCAL PARTY ORGANZATIONS THAT HAVE LITTLE OR NO OPPOSITION • NYC: TAMMANY HALL: «BOSS TWEED » • RICH: KICKBACKS AND BRIBES • FAILS TO REPRESENT/LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE • MOST MEMBER ENDED UP IN PRISON

  32. MEMBERSHIP IN POLITICAL PARTIES • DO NOT HAVE TO JOIN • DO NOT HAVE TO VOTE FOR PARTY CANDIDATE IF YOU ARE A MEMBER • REPUBLICAN COULD HAVE VOTED FOR OBAMA IF THEY WANTED TO • OFFER EVERY CITIZEN A GREAT WAY TO GET INVOLVED IN POLITICS • POLITICAL PARTIES DEPEND ON CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT TO ACCOMPLISH THEIR GOALS

  33. ROLE OF POLITICAL PARTIES • MAIN ROLE: • GET THEIR CANDIDATES ELECTED TO OFFICE • OR NOMINATED TO RUN FOR OFFICE SO THEY CAN GET ELECTED

  34. ROLE OF POLITICAL PARTIES • ELECTION PROCESS • PRIMARY ELECTIONS • 5/6 MONTH BEFORE GENERAL ELECTIONS • DIRECT PRIMARY- ELECTION VOTES CHOOSE CANDIDATES TO REPRESENT EACH PARTY IN A GENERAL ELECTION • OPEN OR CLOSED • RUNOFFS IF NO ONE RECEIVES A MAJORITY IN SOME STATES • GENERAL ELECTIONS • NOVEMBER FIRST TUESDAY AFTER THE FIRST MONDAY

  35. INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE • NO PARTY AFFILIATION • SO HOW DO THEY GET ON THE BALLOT? • PETITION

  36. ROLES OF POLITICAL PARTIES GET CANDIDATE ELECTED TO OFFICE CAMPAIGNING FOR CANDIDATE INFORMING GOVERNMENT OF PEOPLE’S IDEAS HELPING MANAGE GOVERNMENT LINKING DIFFERENT LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT ACT AS A WATCHDOG OVER GOVERNMENT

  37. CH 10 SECTION 1 WHO CAN VOTE????

  38. PowerPoint Activity WHO CAN VOTE????

  39. VOTE? A Brief History of America’s Voting Rights So you think you can

  40. The Early Years When the colonists came over from England, they brought many of the English political laws and customs with them.

  41. The Early Years In most of the thirteen colonies, only adult white males that owned land (usually at least 50 acres) could vote.

  42. The Early Years Many people believed that land owners were the only ones responsible enough to make political decisions!

  43. The Early Years This left poor white men… women… American Indians… and Africans (free and slave) OUT of the voting process!

  44. Thomas Jefferson Independence and the Vote George Washington Benjamin Franklin The Framers of the Constitution couldn’t agree on who should have the right to vote. John Adams They gave each state the power to decide what its own voting rights would be. Do you recognize anyone in the image?

  45. Over time , states dropped the requirement that voters must own property. Some states acted faster than others. New York got rid of the property requirement in 1821. Rhode Island did not change until 1880!

  46. The African American Vote The 15th Amendment was passed in 1870, five years after the end of the Civil War. The Amendment states, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied … on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude.”

  47. The African American Vote The 15th Amendment said that former slaves could not be turned away from the polls due to the color of their skin or the fact that they had been slaves. We will see that this rule wasn’t always followed…

  48. So you think you can VOTE? Can I vote? The year is 1915. I am a single African American man living in Chicago, Illinois. YES YOU CAN!

  49. The Women’s Vote Women gained voting rights after a long hard fight. Wyoming gave women the vote in 1869, but it took the work of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and many others to get the job done!

  50. The Women’s Vote The 19th Amendment said, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied … on account of sex.” Women won the right to vote in August of 1920!

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