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| What is the most populous state? |
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| California has the ___ largest economy in the world. |
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| Gross Domestic Product, and it is $1.9 trillion dollars. |
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| What are the four reasons for our large economy? |
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Central valley, provides agriculture.
Holleywood, provides entertainment.
Silicon valley, provides high tech technology.
Napa, Sonoma, provides wine. |
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| What does it mean to be individualistic? |
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| You prefer a hands off government. You're opposed to communism. You like small government. You like low taxes. |
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| Is California a republic? T or F |
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| What are California's three branches of Government? |
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| Govenor, Assembly and state, and california supreme court |
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| What four things did california's constitution of 1849 establish? |
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| Seperation of powers, checks and balances, declaration of rights, and a direct democracy. |
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| What are the three catagories of a direct democracy? |
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| Initiative, Referendum, and recall. |
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| What kind of system does california have? Explain it. |
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| Unitary; where the constituion defines the rules in how other entities of government will operate. |
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| California is split up into what? |
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| What is the benefit to having counties? |
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| They are the arm for having corporate powers, and they provide public and municipal services such as public health, parks and rec, social services, law enforcement, etc |
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| What are General law counties? |
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| State laws define organization. |
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| What are Charter Counties? |
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| The county defines it's own rules, and it must have 5 or more members. |
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| What are benefits of a city? |
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| Self governing, can raise own revenue, provide public and municipal services |
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| What does the city counsel do? |
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| Hold the legislative and executive powers. |
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| Holds the executive power in the counsel. |
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| In california, how is the govenor elected? |
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| By the people with popular vote. |
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| The california state assembly acts just like the us house of reps, but how long can they serve? |
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| The california state senate acts just like the us senate, but how long can they serve? |
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| Which propositions are attempting to limit the term limits? |
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| How is the state judicial branch elected? |
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| Govenor appoints, state senate approves, elected by the people by popular vote |
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| How long does a judicial branch elected official serve? |
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| What is a direct democracy? |
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| The abiility of citizens to check government by having the oppurtunity to vote on the issues and policies themselves, without mediation from representatives. |
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| What was one of the biggest reasons for us adopting a direct democracy around the turn of the century? |
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| The southern pacific railroad. |
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| Why do we have a direct democracy? |
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| Progressiveism in america, corporate monopolies were influencing government |
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| What were progressivisms three goals? |
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| Revamp the democratic process, limit the power of corporations, and ease class tentions |
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| 1st progressive reformer in california, created the good government league, and was part of the civil service reform. |
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| The name of the California governor and former prosecutor who proposed California’s direct democracy reforms that culminated to the Special Election of 1911. |
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| Allows citizens to place an issue of interest on the ballot for voter approval or rejection |
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| Voters are asked to judge an action previously taken by the state legistor |
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| Voters can remove state or local officials from office before the expiration of their term. |
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| In 1978 what did prop 13 do? |
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| It capped property tax rates in the state |
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| In 1988 what did prop 98 do? |
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| Guarentteed funding for public schools and community colleges (k-14) |
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| What was the downside to prop 98? |
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| Govener had the ability to suspend funding. |
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| Set terms for state legislators. |
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| What did Prop 140 do to the assembly and the senators? |
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| Limited assembly members to three 2 year terms. Limited senators to two 4 year terms. |
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| What does Prop 28 do? And in what way? |
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| It tweaks prop 140 by limiting the number of years that state legislators can serve from 14 years to 12 years. |
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| Redefined marriage as only between a man and a woman. |
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| What are some of the challenges facing california today? (5) |
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| Direct democracy reform, balancing the budget, education, immigration, and redistricting. |
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| What are free and fair elections? |
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| Allows us to authorize gov to speak on our behalf |
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| What is a free and fair election? List the 4 things |
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| Elections must be held regularly, open to participation, competitive, and verifiable results. |
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| You must have formal qualifications in the constitution to be run for a position, but what are some of the informal qualifications? |
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| Experience/background, access to money, name recognition/popularity, character/personality, endorsements, and political party affiliation. |
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| How often do we have an election? |
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| What happens during the general election? |
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| What is a midterm election and what happens? |
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| They occur in between presidential election cycles and this is the gubernatorial race. |
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| Vote will not be abridged in terms of color, race, creed. |
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| Set voting age at 18 years old |
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| What did the National Voting Act of 1965 do? |
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| What is your political ideology? |
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| The set of values and beliefs about the purpose and scope of government held by groups and individuals |
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| What does a libertarian believe in? |
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| Natural rights, limited government, and hands off government |
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| What does a conservative believe in? |
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| Promote big government in the area of order |
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| What are the tracking polls? |
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| Used to judge the popularity of a candidate |
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| Designed to influence public opinion and not used to measure it |
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| Media interviews you after you vote |
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| "There are three types of lies, lies, damned lies, and statistics" Who said this? |
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| _____ works in a winner takes all system? |
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| What are political parties? and what is their goal? |
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| Private organizations with broad based issue positions and their goal is to get members into government. |
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