Voting Systems

How do people in a Republic most directly exercise their rights as citizens?

• purchasing American goods
• getting a job
• helping others in need
• voting in elections

What type of voting system does the UK currently have?

• First Past the Post
• Proportional Representation
• Second Ballot
• Referendum

Which term BEST describes the American political party system?

• multi-party

• one-party

• third-party

• two-party

a body of voters in a specified area who elect a representative to a legislative body.

• Constituencies

• absolute majority of votes

• majoritarian system

• plurality system

A set of rules that decide how votes are cast, counted, and translated into seats in a legislature

• majoritarian system

• plurality system

• electoral system

• first-past-the-post system

An electoral system where the candidate with the most votes wins regardless of whether that person has a majority of the votes cast; there is no runoff election.

• first-past-the-post system

• multimember district (MMD)

• proportional representation

• open party list

An election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.

• proportional representation

• plurality system

• majoritarian system

• first-past-the-post system

Ruler, king/queen/emperor/empress, etc.), inherits power.  Rules by divine right- given power to rule by God.

• Theocracy
• Democracy
• Republic
• Monarchy

Autocracy is a government where one person has the power.

• yes
• no

A monarchy is an example of a type of a democracy.

• yes
• no