POL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fastracks, Voting Age, Direct Democracy
15 May 2014
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Pol- lecture 4: chapter 11- voting, campaigns, and elections. The logic of elections: american democracy is representative democracy, madison emphasized the main differences between a democracy and a republic. One solution is to hold regular, free, competitive elections elections work to ameliorate this problem: They give ordinary citizens a say in who represents them. The prospect of future elections give officeholders who want to keep or improve their jobs a motive to be responsive agents. Every colony imposed property qualifications for voting, and many denied suffrage to. Catholics, jews, native americans, and freed black slaves. Wider suffrage for men the initial property requirements for voting in early american history were a reflection of social reality at the time. Most adults were poor, illiterate, and dependent those in an advantaged position were not inclined to risk the social order, which helped them maintain their position however, the nature of the new world made access to property somewhat easier.
