HELP! I need to ask some questions!

Hello everyone, I am a student who is studying political science right now. Our teacher has left us some questions that I can not find the desired answers. Because the text book we have comes with little information. Therefore, I would like you to help me answering about the following questions, answering longer the better. Thank you a lot! and please reply me ASAP, because it is very urgent. Thank you again!!

Part 1

1. How is the country got more democratic since the ratification of constitution.
2. Voters turnout
3. Knowledge of the public about the votes
4. Role played by money in campaigns.
5. Responsibility of the government to the voters.

Part 2

1. Political Parties (Democratic / republican)
2. Who likely to be democratic/republican
3. Parties stand in certain issue (drugs, abortion, etc)

Part 1

1. The 15th Amendment (1870) guaranteed the right to vote regardless of race, and the 19th Amendment (1920) guaranteed the right to vote regardless of gender. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 prevented racist state governments from finding ways around the 15th Amendment.

2. Here is a link: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781453.html

3. This isn't much, but I hope it helps:

http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycent...-2_9-21_pr.pdf

4. Direct contributions to candidates, or "hard money", are strictly limited, but "soft money" goes from political parties to their candidates in enormous amounts. Here is a link on the subject:

http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/...asp?cycle=2006

5. Well, disclosure of donations is among them (look at the end of this link):

http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/9105.pdf

Part 2

1. The two main parties are the Democratic Party (liberal) and the Republican Party (conservative). The best-known "third parties" are the Libertarian Party (socially liberal, fiscally conservative), the Green Party (very liberal) and the Constitution Party (very conservative).

2. This site gives the demographics of "typology" groups likely to be Republicans and Democrats: http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?PageID=949

3. The Democratic Party is pro-choice (for legal abortion), mostly anti-war and tends to support preserving welfare/entitlement programs. The Democrats also tend to support affirmative action, gay rights and gun control and they are not as strongly opposed to illegal drugs as the Republicans. The Republican Party is pro-life (against legal abortion), hawkish (pro-war) and less supportive of welfare/entitlement programs. The Republican Party is also less supportive of affirmative action, gay rights and gun control, and tends to support the death penalty more strongly than the Democratic Party. Republicans generally support lower taxes than the Democrats. The Libertarian Party supports very low taxes and very low spending, including the elimination of most or all welfare/entitlement programs. It strongly opposes gun control and affirmative action, but supports gay rights and legalizing drugs. Libertarians tend to see abortion as an issue that should be left to the states. The Libertarian Party supports free trade, less restrictions on immigration, and an isolationist foreign policy (avoiding both war and diplomacy most of the time). The Green Party supports everything that the Democratic Party supports but is more consistent in its liberal stances. The Constitution Party supports the economics of the Libertarian Party except that the Constitution Party opposes free trade. The Constitution Party is isolationist, strongly pro-life and anti-immigration, opposes gay rights and sees this as a Christian country, unlike the Libertarian Party, which strongly supports the separation of church and state.

That probably wasn't very helpful, but perhaps it can give you some starting points in your research. I wish you the best of luck.

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LOL. I would never had thought to get everyone on a forum to do my homework for me.. Genius.. wish I thought of it first.

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My answer, buy a US politics textbook. Theres even "brief" editions so you don't have to read as much.

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