1. Welcome to Week 2
Monday 6/16and Tuesday 6/17 will be covering Unit 2: Political Behavior.
You will have homework tonight and a quiz tomorrow afternoon.

2. Constitutional Principles
Pop Quiz: List and briefly describe the six Constitutional Principles: PS F JR CB LG SP

7. Chapter 5: Political Parties

11. Notes 4-Square The Right to Vote Voter Qualification
Suffrage and Civil Rights
Voter Behavior

14. Turn to page 149-150 and list them both in your square.

16. What are the universal requirements for voting? Pg. 152

18. Voter Behavior Millions of who are qualified to vote do not do so.
Those who chose not to vote often lack a feeling of political efficiency. Age, education, income, and geography also affect whether a person is likely to vote or not.
Psychological factors including party identification and perception of the candidate and issues-also contribute to voter behavior.

19. Kennedy and Nixon

20. Do your factors mean you will vote?

24. Take your Ideology Quiz
Homework 6/16
What is ideology?
You just took an ideology quiz to see where you stand politically. What did you find out about yourself (what are you)? What does it mean?
What are two sociological factors that you feel led you to have this political belief?
How likely do you think this political ideology will change, are you confident your beliefs will stay?

26. Objectives
Describe the electoral process in primary and general elections.
Compare the popular vote with the Electoral College as a means to elect government officials.
Explain how a candidate can be elected without receiving the majority of the popular vote.
Contrast primaries and caucuses as ways to nominate someone within a political party.
Explain the role of local, state and national conventions in political parties.
Identify key dates for national elections.

27. Primary elections explained

28. How the electoral college works

29. Trouble with the electoral college

30. Create A Voting Handbook For New Citizens
Handbooks should describe the nomination process, the difference between a caucus, and open/closed primaries, how people can vote, the types of ballots they might encounter, the electoral college, polling place, and voting machine.
You may work with a partner
All completed books are due at break
Your book must consist of several pages that are neatly organized with color and images.
You must explain all prompts adequately.

31. Citizen Advocacy Through Lobbying and Voting
GOALS: Studying about citizen advocacy through lobbying and voting helps students:
Understand one method of making laws and influencing lawmakers;
Evaluate the importance of informed voting in maintaining a democracy; and
Think of themselves as advocates when they make an informed vote or lobby.

32. OBJECTIVES:
Knowledge Objectives: As a result of this class, students will be better able to:
Describe basic methods of citizen advocacy;
Describe qualifications to register to vote and how to register;
Understand methods of lobbying and its influences; and
Evaluate the historical and current importance of being a citizen advocate.
Skills Objectives: As a result of this class, students will be better able to:
Better understand local and national election-related news;
Take steps to become a registered voter (when qualified); and
Know how to use resources to make an informed vote or influence lawmakers through lobbying.
Attitude Objectives: Students will be better able to feel:
That the Constitution and the law is protecting their interests; and
That Voting are Lobbying are ways for a citizen to express their opinions and impact their government and local community.

33. "The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.” Justice Louis Brandeis, 1937.
What does it mean?
Democracy is government by the people;
Our founding fathers struggled to give qualified citizens the right to vote; and
Citizens are responsible for making laws through voting and citizen advocacy.

34. Define:
Lobbying is a way to influence the lawmaking process by convincing lawmakers to vote as you want them to. A lobbyist is someone who tries to convince a lawmaker to vote for or against a particular issue.
Anyone can be a lobbyist.
Today, special interest organizations lobby on behalf of every imaginable cause and professional lobbyists are often hired by organizations to influence legislators.
Lobbying methods include the use of free speech (through letters or public speaking), rights of assembly, association, and freedom of the press.
Can you think of any organizations that might hire lobbyists and for what reason (i.e. National Rifle Association opposing restrictions on gun ownership and control).
Pros and Cons of lobbying:
Examples: Professional lobbyists may have an advantage over citizens, it may enable people to “buy legislation”; it is an important method of getting views heard.

35. CITIZEN ADVOCACY ACTIVITY
Researching the Law: Sobriety Checkpoints
Main Elements of Proposed Law:
An agency’s chief law-enforcement officer would be required to obtain a warrant from a Superior Court judge to conduct sobriety checkpoints scheduled for specific locations, dates and times.
The public would be notified in advance of the checkpoints.
Either all vehicles or a designated sequence — such as every fourth vehicle — would be stopped.
Checkpoints would be set up only in areas with a statistically proven high incidence of accidents involving drugs or alcohol.

36. Critical Thinking Questions:
What arguments could be presented for and against the proposed law? 
What groups, organizations, or businesses are likely to lobby for or against the proposed law?
What lobbying techniques could they use to influence legislators?
If your community held a voter referendum on the proposed law, what would you predict as the outcome?
Do you think this law should be passed?

37. Mass Media and public opinion
Chapter 8

38. The Formation of Public Opinion
Public opinion refers to the attitudes of a significant number of people on matters of government and politics.
Family and education are two of the most important factors in shaping public opinion.
Additional factors that shape public opinion include peer groups, opinion leaders, historic events, and mass media.

39. Measuring Public Opinion
Public opinion can be determined to some extent through elections, interest groups, the media and personal contacts.
The best way to measure public opinion is through opinion polls.
The complex process of scientific polling results in the most reliable poll data.
Although it is important to measure public opinion, public opinion is only one of the many factors that shape public policy.

40. The Mass Media
The American public gets information on public issues through several forms of mass media, especially through television.
The media influences American politics by helping to set the public agenda and by playing a central role in electoral politics.
The influence of the media is limited, in part because many people use mass media as a source of entertainment rather than information.

41. The Daily Show

44. Written Assessment
Use the rest of class to write a short 5-Paragraph essay answering this question. You should use citations in each paragraph and use information from your text. Use information from today’s lesson to strengthen your argument.