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Crash Course Government and Politics
Election Basics: Crash Course Government #36
Season 1
Episode 36
This week Craig is going to give you a broad overview of elections in the United States. As you may have noticed, there are kind of a lot of people in the U.S, and holding individual issues up to a public vote doesn't seem particularly plausible. So to deal with this complexity, we vote for people, not policies, that represent our best interests.
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6:11
All about delegation and informal powers.
7:48
All about the presidential powers NOT found in the Constitution
6:26
All about the expressed powers of the President of the United States.
6:31
All about the three motivating factors of congressional decisions.
6:56
The process of how a bill becomes a law can be pretty complex.
8:10
All about the leadership structure of congress.
8:26
Learn about standing committees, joint committees, conference committees, and caucuses.
8:52
All about the importance of congressional elections.
8:55
All about the compromises met in ratifying the U.S. Constitution
9:13
In the US, power is divided between the national government and the 50 state governments.
8:30
All about the US Governments Separation of powers and the system of checks and balances
9:04
All about the United States Congress, and why it's bicameral, and what bicameral means.