GOVT-110 FA4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Phyllis Schlafly, Dual Federalism, Cooperative Federalism
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Midterm exam what to study: explain the basic tenets of american government. Individualism: individualism- all individuals are deemed rational and fair and endowed with certain unalienable rights. Discuss how these changes are occurring and what affect they may have on maintaining or changing the ideological preferences of the us as a whole. Almost 15 percent of the american population can be classified as immigrants. Many hispanics resist cultural assimilation which has led to many changes in how we see language in this country, most government agencies printing in both english in. Spanish, and pushes are being made toward making america a bilingual country. Hispanics have overtaken african americas as the second most common racial or ethnic group. Asian americans are now the fastest growing minority group in the us. With this growth, there has been a change in the discussions being held by political candidates.