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US 14 Election

The document outlines the process of selecting candidates for the presidential election, including the role of delegates, primary elections, and the electoral college system. It details the campaign period, the election day procedures, and the inauguration of the president. Additionally, it describes the three branches of government: legislative, executive, and judicial, and their respective functions in law-making and enforcement.

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US 14 Election

The document outlines the process of selecting candidates for the presidential election, including the role of delegates, primary elections, and the electoral college system. It details the campaign period, the election day procedures, and the inauguration of the president. Additionally, it describes the three branches of government: legislative, executive, and judicial, and their respective functions in law-making and enforcement.

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Selecting the Candidates

- Every four years


- ....
- Beginning early in a presidential election year (đầu tháng 1 của năm diễn ra bầu
cử)
- +choose delegates (đại biểu) for
- ...
- ...
- national convention ( hội nghị)
+ summer
+holded by each of the two maior political parties
+ choose candidates for president and vice president from delegates
+ candidates for president and vice president come from different states
- primary elections (bầu cử sơ bộ )
+ holded in each state
The Campaign for the general election
+ begins on Labor Day (in early September) to Election Day 9 (in early
November)
+ Each candidate tries to convince a majority of the American voters
+ Campaigning is extremely expensive and noisy.
The Election
- On the Tuesday following the first Monday in November
- When citizens cast votes for presidential and vice presidential candidates, they are
selecting their state's electors ( đại cử tri). These electors as a group are called the
Eletoral college ( đại cử tri đoàn)
- The president and vice president are not actually chosen by how many people vote
for them (the popular vote) (phiếu phổ thông). they are chosen by elatoral votes
- 538 electoral votes; it takes 270 (a maiority) to win
The Inauguration ( lễ nhậm chức)
- on January 20
- The president move to the White House, appoints members of the cabinet
The Constitution
- the legislative branch ( Lập pháp) – Congress (Quốc hội)
+ makes laws:
a bill must be approved by 1/2 of the members of each house of Congress
and by the president
OR 2/3 of the members of each house of Congress if the president
disapproves)
+ the Senate (thượng viện):
100 senators (thượng nghị sĩ) - 2 senators from each state
Six-year terms
Every two years,one-third of all senators face reelection
+ the House of Representatives (hạ viện)
435 congressmen (hạ nghị sĩ) determined by that states population
Two-year terms
Every two years, all 435 congressmen face reelection
- the executive branch (hành pháp)
+ approves & enforces laws
+ the president: read laws; decide foreign policy; appoint judges of the federal
court, ambassadorsand other consular heads
+ the vice president: be elected only; become president upon the death,
resignation, or disability of the president
+ the cabinet: 14 departments; advice the president
- the ludicial branch ( tư pháp)
+ determine what laws mean and whether they are constitution (vi hiến)
+ consists of the federal courts
 Federal laws are controlled or affected by all three branches

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