UNIT 3

By: McKenna Hughes

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AG 01.01: people can participate in the political process because in some stats most of the time
they vote the same. For example Texas the most of the time they have voted Republican. Also the
age group, education, and gender (sex).
AG 01.02: The electoral college encourages citizen participation in the presidential election by
added the votes for both people running for president and which over one has the higher amount of
vote for the people of that state helps them pick the person their electoral college votes go to. But
the electoral college also discourage participation in presidential elections because the electoral
college pick who that states votes from the electoral college goes too.
AG01.03: Citizen participation is a process which provides private individuals an opportunity to
influence public decisions, which helps the people have a choice in the problems in the government.

Also makes it important for people to participation in policy process.

AG02
AG02.01: the political parties role that they play in politics is that
they work on the issues within the government, run for members in
the government or congress. Also these political parties are the ones
that run the government in different views and ideas.
AG02.02: The U.S. political party system is different that they are a
bigger part of the government than the other countries and their

political parties.

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AG02.03: major parties are more popular and have their own mine set and views
on topics with in The government. Minor parties are smaller groups of followers
and also they have different views than the other parties and go more to one side
and aren't as balanced like the major parties.
AG02.04: interest groups play a role in politics because the people in the group
pick a topic and focus and try to solve the topic or support the topic.
AG02.05: interest groups only pick one problem to work on and fix when a
political parties pick for than on topic to work on and run for president. They are

also alike because they both have their own beliefs.

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AG02.06: other ways people can affect the government is by not voting or
knowing anything about the government and judging the government.
AG02.07: the media play in shaping the publics opinion because it the people

who work for the media can take people's focus from one topic to another topic.
AG02.08: media encourage civic participation when it comes to voting or having
the public to make a choice the encourage them to vote for the person in whatever
political party that is paying the media to get people to vote for them. But the media
also discourages civic participation because they make it to where something's or

topics already has an answer.

AG03
AG03.01: People can find just about any information from public
records are online, name, birthday, state lived in and etc. Able to find the
information online websites, mostly you have to pay for them.

AG03.02: The people of the US give their opinion help shaping and
measuring the public opinion by voting on topics for the government.
AG03.03: The public opinion plays the role of showing or voting what
the people want to happen with the government and their choices they

make.

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AG04.01: People have slaughtered each other in wars, inquisitions, and
political actions for centuries and still kill each other over beliefs in
religions, political ideologies, and philosophies. These belief-systems,

when stated as propositions, may appear mystical, and genuine to the

naive, but when confronted with a testable bases from reason and
experiment, they fail miserably. I maintain that faiths (types of beliefs)
create more social problems than they solve and the potential dangers

from them could threaten the future of humankind.

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AG04.02: Consensus decision making is a creative and dynamic
way of reaching agreement between all members of a group. Instead
of simply voting for an item and having the majority of the group
getting their way, a group using consensus is committed to finding
solutions that everyone actively supports, or at least can live with.

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AG04.03: Every day, all around the country, people give speeches that
contain generalities and vagueness. Students on your campus might claim
that local policies are biased against students, but may not explain why.

Politicians may make claims in their speeches about family values

without defining what those values are or throw out statistics without
giving credit to where they found those numbers. Indeed, the nonpartisan
websites FactCheck.org and Politifact.com are dedicated to investigating

and dispelling the claims that politicians make in their speeches.

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AG04.04: When you are defending one side of an issue facts are
needed but also team work and you want to fight for your side even if
you dont agree with the topic you have to fight for.