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History:

The Democratic party originally started in 1791, with the main leaders of the party being  James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, both are very important figures in history. They were the party that added the Constitution and the bill of rights. The democratic party believed that, when founding the United States of America, a strong central government would resemble the British monarchy and were therefore against being strong and controlling. Most of the democratic voters were farmers and hard working men and women so the democratic party had to cooperate with the needs of the workers, this is one of the reasons why they were pro-slavery and were later called “the white man’s party”.

Ideology - Social Liberalism

Since the 1890’s, the U.S. Democratic Party has primarily aligned itself with social liberalism. Democrats have long been known as the liberal party in the United States. Democrats tend to support progressive social causes, a stronger taxation system and social programs based on community responsibility.

Focus on five key issues

Abortion

The democrats support the women's right to chose to abort if they want to, even if they can’t pay.

Civil rights

Disability access, plus 100.000 federal jobs

Equal treatment under law for same-sex couples.

Change racial and religious profiling

Budget and Economy

Help build up the middle class.

Hard work and responsibility should pay off.

Restore budget discipline from 1990s.

Environment

Hunting areas

Restore the wilderness

Gun Control

They believe that it's a person's right to own a firearm, to hold the american tradition also because it says in the second amendment that you have the right to bear and use firearm.

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About Donald John Trump:

Donald J. Trump was born in Queens, New York, on 14th July 1946. He was married to Melania Trump (born Melania Knauss) in 2005. Mr. Trump is father to five children; Donald Trump Jr. Ivanka, Eric, Tiffany and Barron Trump. He is also a proud grandfather of seven grandchildren.

Trump got a bachelor’s degree in economics from Wharton School of finance in 1968. He is an accomplished author, he has authored over fifteen bestsellers, and his first book, The Art of the Deal, is considered a business classic and one of the most successful business books of all time.

Immigration

Link: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/policies/immigration/

Donald Trump's top 10 list of what he’s going to do with the immigration.

1. Begin working on the plans for the wall on the southern border, on day one. Mexico will pay for the wall.

5. Immediately terminate President Obama’s two illegal executive amnesties. All immigration laws will be enforced - we will triple the number of ICE agents. Anyone who enters the U.S. illegally is subject to deportation. That is what it means to have laws and to have a country.

“ICE agents are special policemen that takes care of the immigration problems

7. Ensure that other countries take their people back when we order them deported.

9. Turn off the jobs and benefits magnet. Many immigrants come to the U.S. illegally in search of jobs, even though federal law prohibits the employment of illegal immigrants

One of his key issues

Illegal immigrants and other non-citizens in our prisons and jails together had around 25,000 homicide arrests to their names

Homicide is when a person kills someone

Infrastructure:

Key issues:

Infrastructure investment strengthens our economic platform, makes America more competitive, creates millions of jobs, increases income from jobs for American workers, and reduces the costs of goods and services for American consumers

Over 60000 bridges are suffering from damages and cost the state around 50 billion a year and most major roads like highways are rated as “Less than good condition”

“According to the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), without major improvements to our transportation systems, “the United States will lose more than 2.5 million jobs by 2025” (NAM, Build To Win, 2016). NAM estimates a “ten-year funding gap” of approximately $1 trillion. The Trump Infrastructure Plan is aimed at achieving a target of investment to fill this gap. NAM also found that $8 billion in infrastructure tax credits would support $226 billion in infrastructure investment over 10 years. Innovative financing programs also provide a 10-to-1 return on investment.”
the fun fact about this key issue is that hillary clinton more or less agree with these terms but of course trump states that he will double the amount of money Hillary clinton wants to spent on this infrastructure plan.

According to the Wall Street Journal, “more than a dozen [energy infrastructure] projects, worth about $33 billion, have been either rejected by regulators or withdrawn by developers since 2012, with billions more tied up in projects still in regulatory limbo.” This includes coal and shale energy export facilities. Major pipelines are being blocked as well. As noted in the Wall Street Journal, blocking such projects “leaves some communities without access to lower-cost fuel and higher-paying jobs.”

The thing about this problem is that wall street have a big input on this because they claim that these infrastructures will come with a major downfall on the stocks for especially energy firms which can result in bankruptcy for the firms. and this is the reason why it is hard to make an infrastructure plan for this concrete issue.

Trumps vision:

Transform America’s bad standing infrastructure into a golden opportunity for accelerated economic growth and more rapid productivity gains with a deficit-neutral plan targeting substantial new infrastructure investments.

Provide maximum flexibility to the states.

Make clean water a high priority. Develop a long-term water infrastructure plan with city, state and federal leaders to upgrade aging water systems. Triple funding for state revolving loan fund programs to help states and local governments upgrade critical drinking water and wastewater infrastructure.

For example we have Fragging which is polluting the water because it releases dangerous natural gases and causes the water to be undrinkeble

Link increases in spending to reforms that streamline permitting and approvals, improve the project delivery system, and cut wasteful spending on boondoggles.

boondoggles is an expensive and wasteful project usually paid for with public money.

Tax Plan:

Reduce taxes across-the-board, especially for working and middle-income Americans who will receive a massive tax reduction.

Ensure the rich will pay their fair share, but no one will pay so much that it destroys jobs or undermines our ability to compete.

Eliminate special interest loopholes, make our business tax rate more competitive to keep jobs in America, create new opportunities and revitalize our economy.

Reduce the cost of childcare by allowing families to fully deduct the average cost of childcare from their taxes, including stay-at-home parents.

reduce the current seven tax brackets to three. less than 75.000: 12%- more than 75.000 but less than 225.000: 25%- more than 225.000: 35%. the brackets works the way that, if you Make leds than 75.000 a year, Then your tax will Be 12%.

Child Care:

All taxpayers would be able to create Dependent Care Savings Accounts (DCSAs) for the benefit of born or  unborn children. Total annual contributions to a DCSA are limited to $2,000 per year from all sources, which include the account owner (parent in the case of a minor) or the person establishing elder care account, immediate family members of the account owner, and the employer of the account owner. When established for children, the funds remaining in the account when the child reaches 18 can be used for education expenses, but additional contributions could not be made.

Economy:

Trump's plan for the economy:

1. Create a dynamic booming economy that will create 25 million new jobs over the next decade.

2. Reform policies with a pro-growth tax plan, a new modern regulatory framework, an America-First trade policy, an unleashed American energy plan, and the “penny plan.”

Economy key issues:

1 in 6 American men between the ages of 18-34 are either in jail or out of work.

Since President Obama took office, the national debt has doubled.

U.S. trade deficit in goods reached nearly 800 billion dollars last year alone.

Over the last seven years, 14 million more people have left the labor force.

National Defence:

Trump wants to rebuild their military. He wants to do this by doing the following: He wants to increase the U.S. Army capacity to 540.000 active duty soldiers while ordering the Army Chief’s or the Staff to execute current missions. He wants to rebuild the U.S. toward a capacity of 350 warships, as the National Defense Panel has recommended. He wants to provide the U.S. Air Force with 1.200 fighter aircraft. He also wants to grow the U.S. Marine Corps into 36 battalions. 1 battalion is between 400-1000 soldiers. Donald Trump also wants to build anti ballistic missile destroyers on all the Navy’s cruisers. Trump also wants to conduct a full audit of the Pentagon, eliminating incorrect payments, collecting unpaid taxes, and ending unwanted and unauthorized federal programs.

Key issue

While she was Secretary of State, the Obama Administration cut hundreds of billions of dollars from defense and ignored the warnings of their own Defense Secretary about the minimum defense budget necessary for national security.

That’s why Donalds wants to invest a lot more money in the national defence.

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Political key persons

John C. Frémont - First candidate for president. - Proposed the basic rights of the Constitution(freedom and equal rights). - Did not win.

Abraham Lincoln - First Republican president.

History

Reason why the party was created

Founded in  1854

Reaction against slavery

Equal rights for all men

Promoting westward expansion

America was split over the issue of slavery

South - Want slavery to make farming profitable (lots of farmers) legal

North - Considers slavery unethical and inhuman (lots of industry) illegal

Slavery

1820 - the Missouri Compromise - Divided America into south and north (mentioned above). Lasted for about 30 years.

1854 - the Kansas-Nebraska Act - States decide if slavery should be legal or illegal. This caused more slave states.

Because of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Alvan E. Bovay, Austin Blair and other prominent people founded the Republican Party.

So basically, the party was founded mainly because of slavery.

Growth of the party

1855 - Republicans had the majority in the House of Representatives.

1856 - First candidate for president: John C. Frémont. - Did not win. - proposed basic rights of Constitution.

1860 - Abraham Lincoln took presidency as the first Republican president.

Many southern states seceded(left) the Union. They formed the Confederacy.

Seceding states reached 11.

1861 - Civil War began when the Confederacy attacked Fort Sumter.

1865 - Republicans won the war. - Slavery was abolished in all American states.

The Restoration

The Restoration is the time after the Civil War where the republicans improved a lot of things about America.

Business - Support for banks and perfecting conditions for industry.

Focus on education.

Established the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Justice, and the Homestead Act (to encourage westward expansion).

Political stances

GUN CONTROL - the majority of Republicans believe in the second amendment, which means they will allow people to own and bear arms

HOMELAND SECURITY - The republicans want to tighten border controls and take any means necessary to keep America safe(that is also the reason they think immigrants is a threat to the american people). such as increase spending on the military and equipment.

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY - People are responsible for their own lives(liberalism).

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Hillary Clinton

Backgrounds and education:

Hillary Clinton has served as secretary of state, U.S. senator from New York, first lady of the United States, first lady of Arkansas, a practicing lawyer and law professor, and an activist.

key political issues:

1. a fair tax system: As president, Hillary wants to ensure that the 1% of America pay their fair share of taxes, by closing tax loopholes. Some of these are loopholes that reward companies by shifting jobs and professions overseas, by charging an “exit tax” to these companies, making them pay their share of taxes to the state, even when they are out of the country.

2. Generate enough renewable energy to power every home in America, with half a billion solar panels installed by the end of Hillary’s first term.

3) Cut energy waste in American homes, schools, hospitals and offices by a third and make American manufacturing the cleanest and most efficient in the world.

Reduce American oil consumption by a third through cleaner fuels and more efficient cars, boilers, ships, and trucks.

4)Hillary wants to bring down the cost of healthcare, and make sure that citizens get the choices that they deserve. A quote from Hillary about healthcare:                                   “As your president, I want to build on the progress we’ve made. I’ll do more to bring down health care costs for families, ease burdens on small businesses, and make sure consumers have the choices they deserve. And frankly, it is finally time for us to deal with the skyrocketing out-of-pocket health costs, and particularly runaway prescription drug prices” - Hillary, September 21, 2015

5)Stopping terrorism: Hillary wants to strengthen American defences, but at the same time increase firepower towards ISIS. She wants to work together with European allies, to take down ISIS.

She was raised a Methodist and her mom taught Sunday school. She took the teachings of the church to heart:

“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.”

Some important pros and cons she stands for:

Hillary believes that we're stronger together

She’ll make debt-free college

Pro

death penalty

federal taxes should be increased

all universities or colleges tuition-free

more laws about guns

abortion should be legal

obama care=good

assisted suicide

marijuana medical option

drone strikes abroad

Con

-private prison

-racial profiling in law enforcement

-war against drugs

-subsidize oil companies

-troops to isis

- nsa looking through your email and phone

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History:

The Democratic party originally started in 1791, with the main leaders of the party being  James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, both are very important figures in history. They were the party that added the Constitution and the bill of rights. The democratic party believed that, when founding the United States of America, a strong central government would resemble the British monarchy and were therefore against being strong and controlling. Most of the democratic voters were farmers and hard working men and women so the democratic party had to cooperate with the needs of the workers, this is one of the reasons why they were pro-slavery and were later called “the white man’s party”.

Ideology - Social Liberalism

Since the 1890’s, the U.S. Democratic Party has primarily aligned itself with social liberalism. Democrats have long been known as the liberal party in the United States. Democrats tend to support progressive social causes, a stronger taxation system and social programs based on community responsibility.

Focus on five key issues

Abortion

The democrats support the women's right to chose to abort if they want to, even if they can’t pay.

Civil rights

Disability access, plus 100.000 federal jobs

Equal treatment under law for same-sex couples.

Change racial and religious profiling

Budget and Economy

Help build up the middle class.

Hard work and responsibility should pay off.

Restore budget discipline from 1990s.

Environment

Hunting areas

Restore the wilderness

Gun Control

They believe that it's a person's right to own a firearm, to hold the american tradition also because it says in the second amendment that you have the right to bear and use firearm.

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elections and the election process 

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The caucus and the primary

The caucus is kind of a conference, it is spread across the US in a series of meetings. Often it´s only registered members of the party who can vote for the party´s candidate. But states can set their own rules.

The primaries is a process statewide. When the primaries start, there might be a lot of candidates from the same party fighting for the presidential nominee for the party. Throughout the process of the primaries the number of candidates decreases until only one is left. That person will then be the presidential nominee for the party. There are two types of primaries, open or closed. In the closed ones, the voters can only vote for their particular party. In open primaries, supporters of other parties can vote for other parties as well as their own.

Conventions

National conventions take place between July and September. At the conventions the parties announce their presidential candidate officially.

At the conventions the candidates give their ‘acceptance speech’. In these speeches, the candidates outline their goals, talk about themselves and their families and try to summarize what they will do if elected.

Today, the candidate is unofficially chosen long before the convention.

The electors and the “draw election” rules including new voting technique and the states congresses.

There are 538 electors across the USA. These electors are spread across the country and there to easier count all the votes. if for example, Clinton gets 50,1% of the votes in a state, all the electors in that state go to Clinton.

If the election is draw, and both Clinton and Trump gets 269 electors, the USA have a new system (which never happened). Now each state has only one vote, whatsoever. The candidate who gets 26 votes wins. If this election is draw again (25 vs 25) they just vote again until one candidate gets 26 votes.