Blog Quiz nov-23-10

1.  Provide a paragraph on an important issue of your choice from Section 1:   History of voting rights the Farmer of the Constitution purposly left the power to set suffrage qualifications to each State.Suffrage maens the right to vote. Franchise is another term with the same meaning.

2.  Provide a paragraph on an important issue of your choice from Section 2:  The 26th Amendment,added to the Constitiutionin 1971,declares"the right of citizens of the United States,who aer eightteen years of age or older,to vote shall not be denied or adrdged by the United States or by any State on account of age." Thus,no State may set the minnimum age for voting in any election at more than 18.

3.  Provide a paragraph on an important issue of your choice from Section 3:The voting right act in 1965 made the 15th Amendment,at long last,a truly effective part of the Constitution. Unlike its perdecessors,this act applied to all elections held anywhere in this counrty State and local,as well as federal.

4.  Provide a paragraph on an important issue of your choice from Section 4:  The education studies on voter behavior reveal that there is also a close relationship between the level of a voter's education and how he or she votes. College graduates vote for Republicans in higher percentages than do high-school graduates; and high-school vote Republican more ofter than do those who have gone throug grade school.

5. Explain voter apathy and what can be done to help it:  We need to increase the amount and sophistication of civic edutation in our homes and schools. We must also develop policies that address the central concerns of the electorate, while realiging and strengthening the two-party system.. it is important for us to instill in our young people a sense of values that emphasizs somthing larger than its self

6. Explain the qualifications for registering to vote: You must be 18 years old or older to vote. Is to procedure of voter identifcation intended to prevent fraudulent voting.It gives election officials a list of theose persons who are qualified to vote in an election.