- •Международных отношений (у) мид рф
- •Кафедра английского языка № 2
- •Основы политической системы сша The Way They Run America москва
- •Introduction
- •Checks and balances
- •In american government president Executive Branch
- •Supreme court and other federal courts
- •Congress Legislative Branch
- •Text 2 Congressional organization
- •Text 3 How a Bill becomes a Law
- •Text 4 What is the role of the lobbyist?
- •For your information… Growth of the United States original thirteen states
- •Read the text “The Constitution” on page __. Do the task which follows the text.
- •Read the extract from The Brethren by John Grisham on page __. Do the task which follows the text.
- •Read the article “The Human Side of Congress” on page __. Do the task which follows the text.
- •The executive
- •The Government of the United States
- •Text 1 The Administration
- •Impeachment
- •For your information…
- •Read the excerpt from “America and Americans” by j. Steinbeck on page __ and do the tasks which follow the text.
- •Read “The Full Text of President Clinton’s tv Address” on page ___ and answer the questions.
- •Read the excerpt from “The Moneychangers” by Arthur Hailey on page __ and answer the questions. Unit 3 the judiciary
- •Justice of the peace courts
- •Street Law. A Course in Practical Law The Adversary System
- •Judges and Juries
- •Lawyers
- •When Do You Need a Lawyer?
- •For your information…
- •Unit 4 the elections
- •The Announcement
- •(Spring) Nominating conventions
- •And primary elections
- •(Summer) National Conventions
- •The Campaign
- •(November) Election Day
- •(December / January) Electoral College Process
- •(January 20) Inauguration
- •What is the difference between popular vote and electoral vote?
- •Which type of vote elects a president?
- •College bound?
- •Everything you ever wanted to know about the Electoral College system - and now have to ask
- •By Matthew Cooper
- •Q. So these electors, who are they?
- •Q. When and how do they vote?
- •Q. Can electors vote how they please?
- •Q. We know it’s the new House that votes. But is it the new Senate?
- •Q. The President pro tempore of the Senate?
- •For your information… Televised Debates: How it All Started …
- •Reader the constitution a New Nation
- •The Constitution and the Bill of Rights
- •The brethren by j. Grisham (an extract)
- •The human side of congress Representative Jim Wright
- •The full text of president
- •How does Bill Clinton’s tv address correspond with John Steinbeck’s description of Americans’ attitude towards their Presidents?
- •By Arthur Hailey
- •By forum easters
- •Rage of angels
- •By Sidney Sheldon
- •By Mark Twain
- •Bibliography
Q. We know it’s the new House that votes. But is it the new Senate?
A. Yes, and in contrast to the House, its members vote as individuals, not by state.
Q. O.K., let’s assume a total nightmare. The Electoral College doesn’t pick a President, the House and Senate don’t pick a President - all by Jan. 20. What happens?
A. The Speaker of the House becomes President. If he can’t serve, the president pro tempore of the Senate, becomes President.
Q. The President pro tempore of the Senate?
A. Under this system, anything’s possible.
What is the difference between popular vote and electoral vote?
Which type of vote elects a president?
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Comment on the excerpt from a dialogue between an imaginary U.S. President and his Vice President.
“Do you know the biggest problem with the world today? There are no more statesmen. Countries are being run by politicians. There was a time not too long ago when this earth was peopled with giants. Some were good, and some were evil - but, by God, they were giants. Roosevelt and Churchill, Hitler and Mussolini, Charles de Gaulle and Joseph Stalin. Why did they all live at that one particular time? Why aren’t there any statesmen today?”
“It’s pretty hard to be a world giant on a twenty-one-inch screen.”
“Windmills of the Gods”
Sidney Sheldon
For your information… Televised Debates: How it All Started …
The most important events of presidential elections are the televised debates between the candidates. Very many voters make up their minds on the strength of these performances.
There are now debates in primaries, too, and the result is that a candidate who performs well on television starts with a great advantage over his rivals. The first presidential debates were in 1960, between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy. Kennedy came off better. Nixon never debated again.
The practice did not revive until the 1976 election, when President Ford and Jimmy Carter staged a debate during the presidential campaign.
It was an important and also farcical event. Just as the moderator was about to start the show, the telephone connection to the two speakers failed. Both remained stuck at their lecterns, like two dummies, for the next forty minutes.
Once the problem was resolved, it became clear that Ford, who had spent his career in the House of Representatives, was not good on television. Jimmy Carter was a preacher and came over as sincere, honest and trustworthy.
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Donkeys and Elephants
A famous 19th century cartoonist, Thomas Nast, first drew the Democratic Party as a donkey and the Republican Party as an elephant in 1874, in separate cartoons. These symbols caught on immediately. A contemporary described the Democratic Party as being “like a mule – without pride of ancestry or hope of posterity”.
The elephant was defined in 1904 thus: “Among the elephant’s known characteristics are cleverness and unwieldiness. He is an animal easy to control until he is aroused; but when frightened or stirred up, he becomes absolutely unmanageable.”
These two symbols have been used by political cartoonists ever since.
State |
capital |
motto |
nickname |
Alabama |
Montgomery |
We Dare Defend Our Rights |
The Cotton State |
Alaska |
Juneau |
The Great Land |
|
Arizona |
Phoenix |
God enriches |
Apache State |
Arkansas |
Little Rock |
The People Rule |
Bear State |
California |
Sacramento |
Eureka, I Have Found it. |
Golden State |
Colorado |
Denver |
Nothing without God |
Centennial State |
Connecticut |
Hartford |
He Who Transplanted Still Sustains |
Nutmeg State |
Delaware |
Dover |
Liberty and Independence |
Diamond State |
Florida |
Tallahassee |
In God We Trust |
Sunshine State |
Georgia |
Atlanta |
Wisdom, Justice, Moderation |
Empire State of the South |
Hawaii |
Honolulu |
The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness |
The Aloha State |
Idaho |
Boise |
Exist Forever |
Jem State |
Illinois |
Springfield |
State Sovereignty, National Union |
Prairie State |
Indiana |
Indianapolis |
Crossroads of America |
Hoosier State |
Iowa |
Des Moines |
Our Liberties We Prize and our Rights We will Maintain |
Hawkeye State |
Kansas |
Topeka |
To the Stars through Difficulties |
Sunflower State |
Kentucky |
Frankfort |
United We Stand, Divided We Fall |
Bluegrass State |
Louisiana |
Baton Rouge |
Union, Justice, and Confidence |
Pelican State |
Maine |
Augusta |
I Direct |
Pine Tree State |
Maryland |
Annapolis |
Many Deeds, Womanly Words |
Old Line State |
Massachusetts |
Boston |
By the Sword She Seeks Peace, but Peace only Under Liberty |
Bay State |
Michigan |
Lansing |
If You Seek a Pleasant Peninsula Look About You |
Wolverine State |
Minnesota |
St. Paul |
Star of the North |
Gopher State |
Mississippi |
Jackson |
By Valor and Arms |
Magnolia State |
Missouri |
Jefferson City |
The Welfare of the People Shall be the Supreme Law |
Show Me State |
Montana |
Helena |
Oro y Plata, Gold and Silver |
Treasure State |
Nebraska |
Lincoln |
Equality before the Law |
Cornhusker State |
Nevada |
Carson City |
All for Our Country |
Silver State |
New Hampshire |
Concord |
Live Free or Die |
Granite State |
New Jersey |
Trenton |
Liberty and Prosperity |
Garden State |
New Mexico |
Santa Fe |
It Grows as It Goes |
Land of Enchantment |
New York |
Albany |
Excelsior, Ever Upward |
Empire State |
North Carolina |
Raleigh |
To Be, Rather than To Seem |
Tarheel State |
North Dakota |
Bismarck |
Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable |
Flickertail State |
Ohio |
Columbus |
An Empire within an Empire |
Buckeye State |
Oklahoma |
Oklahoma City |
Labor Conquers All Things
|
Sooner State |
Oregon |
Salem |
The Union |
Beaver State |
Pennsylvania |
Harrisburg |
Virtue, Liberty and Independence |
Keystone State |
Rhode Island |
Providence |
Hope |
Little Rhody |
South Carolina |
Columbia |
While I Breathe, I Hope |
Palmetto State |
South Dakota |
Pierre |
Under God, the People Rule |
Sunset State |
Tennessee |
Nashville |
America At Its Best |
Volunteer State |
Texas |
Austin |
Friendship |
Lone Star State |
Utah |
Salt Lake City |
Industry |
Beehive State |
Vermont |
Montpelier |
Freedom and Unity |
Green Mountain State |
Virginia |
Richmond |
Thus Always to Tyrants |
Old Dominion |
Washington |
Olympia |
Bye and Bye |
Evergreen State |
West Virginia |
Charleston |
Mountaineers Always Free |
Mountain State |
Wisconsin |
Madison |
Forward |
Badger State |
Wyoming |
Cheyenne |
Equal Rights |
Equality State |