The United States of America

这是一篇关于The United States of America的思维导图，主要内容包括：Election，Political parties，Goveromment，Constitution。

The United States of America

• Constitution
• Goveromment
• Political parties
• Election
• general election
• party conventions
• primary elections
• Process
• winner-takes-all
• holds every 4 years
• Rules
• Presidents usually comes from 1 of 2 parties
• 1.symbol: elephant 2.perfer more freedom in society 3.free choice of abortion
• 1.symbol: donkey2. perfer a strong social security system 3.less restrictive abortion 4. open to LGBTs
• The Republicans
• The Democracts
• two main parties
• respect for Constitution and the rules of laws
• the separation of powers
• federalism
• continually imporve by constitutional amendment
• well-known BIll of RIghts in 1791
• first drawn up in 1787 but nothing was mentioned about rights of individuals
• development
• specifying the respective powers of the federal goveronment abd of the state goveronment
• checks and balances
• characteristics