Special interest groups are groups of individuals and/or corporations that usually have a direct stake in the outcome of the policy making process. ... It is important to note that these people control large amounts of money and are often referred to as "clients" by some government officials (Bean 119). ... Because these corporations have almost an unlimited supply of money at their disposal, it is easier for them to control or at least manipulate the policy making process. ... The Second aspect of this argument I want to focus on is how "soft money" affects policy making and in some cases ...

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THE UNITED STATES Government The national government The United States Constitution defines a federal system of government in which certain powers are delegated to the national government and others are reserved to the states. The national government consists of executive, legislative, and judi...

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Both of these young lawyers were very active in the women's movement and thought women should have the right to control their own reproductive processes. ... This of course may affect future decisions and may give even greater control of abortion to state legislatures as the meaning of "undue burden" is clarified. ...

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Those three presidents being so closely involved with the new government helped choose the Congress members, so there was very little difference of opinion between the two branches, other than two amendments most of the government policy remained static. ... Political parties can be found in three different arenas: a label in the minds of the voters, as an organization that recruits and campaigns for candidates, and as a set of leaders who try to organize and control the legislative and executive branches of government. ... Presidential politics became national and very popular, and as a res...

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Guam's local politics are predominantly controlled by ethnic-Chamorros. Unfortunately for them and the United States., the Guamanians were led to believe that racially based policies were acceptable. ...

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The establishment of an effective Judicial System in the United States of America has come with numerous challenges over the past centuries. What is thought of as "probably the most important and the most satisfactory Act ever passed by Congress," the Judiciary Act of 1789 created for the people a system of courts that would ensure the presence of justice in the new American society. The state of the nation at the time, however, would prove to be challenging for the few selected to hold judicial positions. The terms within the newly minted Constitution posed more questions than they answe...

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LIBERTARIANISM Two hundred and twelve years ago thirty nine signatures spoke, gracing its delicate spaceless yet palatial surface with the ease and wave of a single downy bowed quill. Seventeen hundred and eighty seven was the year that the most momentous document in the United States his...

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This shared sentiment meant "it becomes the duty of each to endeavor to maintain that form which they think most useful and agreeable to themselves, most likely to preserve order and decency in their public worship."13 If this kind of institution were allowed to be created in the new sovereign, United States, then order and decency in public policy would be in jeopardy. ...

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