USA CITIZENSHIP TEST
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Question
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Primary Election
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Electoral College
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General Election
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Secret Appointment
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Detailed explanation-1: -Democratic Governments You now know that the main feature of a democracy is that the people have the power to elect their leaders. So in a sense a democracy is rule by the people. The basic idea is that people rule themselves by participating in the making of these rules.
Detailed explanation-2: -Electoral College. In other U.S. elections, candidates are elected directly by popular vote. But the president and vice president are not elected directly by citizens. Instead, they are chosen by “electors” through a process called the Electoral College.
Detailed explanation-3: -The candidate who gets highest votes gets elected. That is what elections are all over the world.
Detailed explanation-4: -This person is called a “nominee", though nominee often is used interchangeably with “candidate". A presumptive nominee is a person or organization believes that the nomination is inevitable or likely. The act of being a candidate in a race for either a party nomination or for electoral office is called a “candidacy".