Government Chapter 13 Vocab
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term for the President as the ceremonial head of the United States, the symbol of all the people of the nation
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Chief of state
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term for the President as vested with the executive power of the United States
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Chief executive
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term for the President as head of the administration of the Federal Government
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Chief administrator
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term for the President as the main architect of foreign policy and spokesperson to other countries
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Chief Diplomat
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Term for the president as commander of the nation's armed forces
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Commander in Chief
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term of the President as architect of public policy and the one who sets the agenda for Congress
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chief legislator
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term for the President as the leader of his or her political party
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Chief of party
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term for the President as the representative of the people, working for the public interest
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chief citizen
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Scheme by which a presidential vacancy is filled
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presidential succession
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when a presidential candidate chooses a running mate who can strengthen his chance of being elected by virtue of certain ideological, geographic, racial, ethnic, gender, or other characteristics.
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balance the ticket
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A person elected by the voters to represent them in making a formal selection of the Vice President and President.
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Presidential Elector
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Votes cast by electors in the electoral college
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Electoral Votes
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Group of persons chosen in each State and the District of Columbia every 4 years who make a formal selection of the President and Vice President.
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Electoral College
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An election in which a party's voters are (1) choose state part organization's delegates to their party's national convention, and/or (2) express a preference for their party's presidential nomination.
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Presidential Primary
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An almost obsolete system whereby a presidential aspirant who won the preference vote in a primary automatically won all the delegates chosen in the primary.
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Winner take all
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rule applied in Democratic primaries whereby any candidate who wins at least 15% of the votes gets the number of State Democratic convention delegates based on his or her share of that primary vote
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proportional representation
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meeting at which a party's delegates vote to pick their presidential and vice-presidential candidates.
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national convention
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a political party's formal statement of basic principles, stands on major issues, and objectives
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platform
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speech given at a party convention to set the tone for the convention and the campaign to come
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keynote address
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proposal for choosing presidential electors by which two electors would be selected in each State according to the Statewide popular vote and the other electors would be selected separately in each of the State's congressional districts.
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district plan
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proposal by which each presidential candidate would receive the same share of a State's electoral vote as he or she received in the State's popular vote
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proportional plan
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proposal to do away with the electoral college and allow the people to vote directly for the President and Vice President
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direct popular election
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all of the people entitled to vote in a given election
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electorate
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Proposal for electing a President by which the winner of the popular vote would receive a bonus of 102 electoral votes in addition to his or her State-based electoral college votes. If no one received at least 321 electoral votes a run-off election would be held.
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national bonus plan
