Oliva, Matt, Salma, and Brandon Election 2016 Important Vocabulary/Concepts by Matthew Robinson https://padlet.com/matthewr3/pt37f7ovfjlg en-us 2016-09-26 16:33:52 UTC 2016-10-18 16:58:02 UTC hello@padlet.com Who Is Involved? salmaa https://padlet.com/matthewr3/pt37f7ovfjlg/wish/126438831 All citizens 18 or older are eligible to vote. Thanks to equal voting rights, everyone who is not a straight white male can vote. Congress is involved in constitutional amendments. ]]> 2016-09-26 16:39:04 UTC https://padlet.com/matthewr3/pt37f7ovfjlg/wish/126438831 What? (The Basic Definition) salmaa https://padlet.com/matthewr3/pt37f7ovfjlg/wish/126439793 A constitutional amendment is a modification  of a constitution of a nation or state. Sometimes the text of the constitution is changed, but other times the text remains the same, wile the effect of the constitution is altered. Voting rights became active in 1965, a law passed during the civil rights movement. It eliminated various devices, which had traditionally been used to restrict the voting by black people.]]> 2016-09-26 16:41:46 UTC https://padlet.com/matthewr3/pt37f7ovfjlg/wish/126439793 Where does process and/or event takes place bsob https://padlet.com/matthewr3/pt37f7ovfjlg/wish/126440267 In the USA
In the USA, in courts
In courts, White House, capitol building
People protest on voting rights based on whether or not they believe other people should have rights

]]> 2016-09-26 16:43:13 UTC https://padlet.com/matthewr3/pt37f7ovfjlg/wish/126440267 When process takes place (timeline of events--dates) bsob https://padlet.com/matthewr3/pt37f7ovfjlg/wish/126440829 Every four years  
The Constitution provides that an amendment may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures.]]> 2016-09-26 16:44:55 UTC https://padlet.com/matthewr3/pt37f7ovfjlg/wish/126440829 How does this process bsob https://padlet.com/matthewr3/pt37f7ovfjlg/wish/126442492 The citizens all vote on their preferred candidate, then the electoral college represents the candidate that gets the most votes, the states with more population ]]> 2016-09-26 16:49:24 UTC https://padlet.com/matthewr3/pt37f7ovfjlg/wish/126442492 Why This Is Important To Democracy salmaa https://padlet.com/matthewr3/pt37f7ovfjlg/wish/126442674 If no one speaks up and votes we wouldn't even be a democracy, and we would have no choice on our leader. Plus, it is just basic human rights for people to be able to vote. Democracy ensures that no one is oppressed. A democracy helps us to establish whether someone is following laws. It also helps to solidify state versus federal government laws.]]> 2016-09-26 16:49:52 UTC https://padlet.com/matthewr3/pt37f7ovfjlg/wish/126442674 take place (important decisions and actions that make the process possible) bsob https://padlet.com/matthewr3/pt37f7ovfjlg/wish/126444131 get more votes in the end, which means that the candidates want to get the bigger states to win the election, there are 540 votes, the candidate to get 270 or more wins the election. 

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