POLI 2051 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Executive Privilege, Joe Biden, Cloture
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4/5/16 10:12 am (cid:1: political participation - Conventional: relatively routine, non-threatening behavior that uses the channels of representative government. Unconventional: relatively uncommon behavior that challenges or defies government channels. (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Voting the most common and most studied form of participation. Record of enfranchisement in the usa: initially, most states had taxpaying or property holding requirements for voting - these were eliminated by the. 1850s: enfranchisement of black people the 15th amendment. Voting rights act of 1965: enfranchisement of women the 19th amendment. Because they needed more people to vote in the state: enfranchisement of 18-year olds the 26th amendment. Specific examples __ not all of them: two reasons historically. Blacks and 18-year olds in the 1960s. African americans in the mid 60s: civil rights movement, civil disobedience and then the ones who wanted a more aggressive approach to civil rights. To pacify the citizens during vietnam, civil rights movement, kent state riot, desegregation of schools causing deaths, etc.
