The Will of the People Vocabulary

to purposely refrain from voting

• abstain
• amendment
• ballots
• disenfranchised

to change in wording or meaning in a law or bill

• disenfranchised
• electors
• amendment
• civil unrest

pieces of paper used to cast secret votes

• election system
• electors
• ballots
• abstain

a person who runs in an election contest or is proposed for an office

• disenfranchised
• electors
• Electoral College
• candidate

a late eighteenth-century political party that strictly interpreted the U.S. Constitution and emphasized states' rights

• Electoral College
• Know Nothings
• National Convention
• Democratic-Republican

deprived of the right to vote

• disenfranchised
• conspiracy
• anarchy
• abstain

the process of voting to choose a person for office

• amendment
• electors
• Electoral College
• election system

members of the electoral college

• electors
• Electoral College
• Democratic Party
• Democratic-Republicans

votes by members of the Electoral College who are chosen on election day by a vote of the state's residents

• electors
• electoral votes
• franchise
• disenfranchise

a body of electors in each state that meets every four years to elect the president and vice president of the United States

• electors
• Democratic Party
• disenfranchised
• Electoral College