chapter 13 vocab.
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Chief Of State
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Ceremonial head of government
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Chief Executive
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Executive Order ( Not a law that has power of a law)
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Chief Administrator
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Director of the Federal Government, in which he directs the large government bureaucracy
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Chief Diplomat
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Architect of foreign policy
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Commander in Chief
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A person who is in control of all the armed forces of a nation.
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Chief Legislator
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Recommends or suggests law
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Chief of Party
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term for the president as the leader of his or her political party
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Chief Citizen
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Role of the President as the representative of all of the people, working in the public interest
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Presidential Succession
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the order in which officials fill the office of president in case of a vacancy
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Presidential Succession Act of 1947
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25th Amendment
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Balance the Ticket
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to choose a vice presidential running mate in order to help draw votes from all areas of the country
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Presidential Elector
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The persons elected by the voters to represent them in making a formal selection of the President and Vice President.
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Electoral Vote
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the official vote for president and vice president by electors in each state
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Presidential Primary
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An election in which a party's voters (1) choose State party 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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Winner-Take-All
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an election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins
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Proportional Representation
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An election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
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Caucus
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a private meeting
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National Convection
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a meeting or assembly held nationally on a certain matter at hand.
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Platform
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A document stating the aims and principles of a political party
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Electoral College
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A group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president
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Keynote Address
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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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Swing Voter
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Voters who frequently swing their support from one party to another.
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Battleground State
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aka swing states. A state in which no candidate has overwhelming support, meaning that any of the major candidates have a reasonable chance of winning the state's electoral college votes
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District Plan
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electors would be chosen in each State in the same way as members of Congress
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Proportional Plan
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each President candidate would recieve the same share of a state's electoral vote as he recieves the instate popular vote
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Direct Popular Election
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proposal to do away with the electoral college and allow the people to vote directly for President and Vice President
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National Popular Vote Plan
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electing President by each state's election laws provide for states electoral votes to be winner and enter into an interstate compact agreeing to elect the pres by national popular vote
