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Political Parties
Vocabulary for Political Parties from iCivics lesson and Ch 10 in textbook
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Political Party | group of people with broad, shared interests. They join together to help the candidates they support win elections |
| Two-party system | system of government in which two political parties compete for power |
| third party | smaller political parties have competed for power with the two main parties often promoted ideas that were unpopular at first |
| platform | series of statements expressing the party’s core beliefs and its positions on various issues |
| politically independent | don't want to identify with any political party |
| ballot access | each state has their own rules about how to get onto the ballot |
| candidate | someone running for political office |
| majority party | the party with the most elected members |
| minority party | works to promote the views of its members by forcing compromise with majority party |
| public policy | the stand that the government takes about how an issue should be handled |