POL S 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: First Amendment To The United States Constitution
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Framers allowed for parties to form despite distrust: first amendment. Critical realignment: when a political party suddenly changes direction due to ideology or political platform, the affect fdr on the democratic party. Most homogenous country in the world is iceland: they have one of the most well-balance governments (gender based) in the world, first to have the first female government leader, most people are related, complete opposite of america. We elect individuals they elect parties. (cid:862)party dis(cid:272)ipli(cid:374)e(cid:863: the ability of party leadership to force its elected members to vote the way it wants them to. Fusion of powers: executive and legislative branches are fused together. The progressives: weakened our political party. We like options: (cid:862)we like the (cid:271)uffet(cid:863) Single (one-party system: one legal political party; it is the government, politi(cid:272)al parties do(cid:374)"t i(cid:374)tera(cid:272)t (cid:449)ith ea(cid:272)h other, ex: nazi germany, soviet union, north korea, iraq under sudan hasan, they are all dictatorships.
