Do you think interest groups should be allowed to influence government? Or do
you think that there are issues with this? Why? Please help me!!!

Answer:

Interest groups have both their opponents and supporters. The critics maintain that they only give those who have considerable wealth and power additional political influence and that the tactics used and the money available corrupts the political process. The defenders argue, on the other hand, that the system is much more open than in the past and point to the effective lobbying that groups representing women, minorities, and older adults are able to do. They claim that instances of corruption are the rare exceptions, and they champion interest groups as a vehicle for Americans to petition the government. As in other areas, however, this First Amendment guarantee is not absolute. The courts have ruled that limitations on lobbying are legitimate because its goal is to directly influence legislation.

Controls over lobbying

Lobbyists are required to register with the clerk of the House and the secretary of the Senate and indicate what group they are representing, the amount of their salary or compensation, and what types of expenses are reimbursed to them. They also have to file quarterly financial statements. These controls, which admittedly have not been effective in limiting abuse, date from the 1946 Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act. In addition, lobbyists who represent foreign governments or corporations must register with the Justice Department as agents of those countries.

Congress has also attempted to slow down the so-called "revolving door" by which an official begins to lobby his or her colleagues immediately after leaving a government position. Under the 1978 Ethics in Government Act, senior executive branch officials cannot lobby federal agencies on a matter that fell within their scope of responsibility for two years after leaving government service. In addition, they are prohibited from lobbying anyone in their former agency 1) on any issue for one year and 2) forever on matters that they were involved in.

The success of lobbyists depends on their personal ties with those in government. Those relationships were often cemented with gifts that could range from tickets to a football game to weekends at resort hotels. Reforms adopted in 1995, banned all gifts to members of the House and put limits on the value of gifts to senators. The legislation also required lobbyists to disclose the issues and bills they worked on and the branches of government they contacted. Stricter rules regarding lobbying were also adopted by Congress in 2007 in response to highly publicized scandals. The Senate now bars all gifts from lobbyists, lobbyists are required to disclose payments to organizations controlled by or named for a member of Congress, and "bundled" contributions from lobbyists are more closely scrutinized.

Control of political action committees

Many Americans are concerned with the amount of money PACs raise and give to candidates. The public interest group Common Cause believes PACs should be abolished altogether. Short of this step, there are proposals to reduce the amount of money an individual PAC can contribute to a candidate or the total amount the candidate can accept from all PACs. Expanding federal financing of elections to include congressional races or making some provision for the government to underwrite certain types of campaign expenses would also limit the importance of PACs. For obvious reasons, Congress has not been very willing to tackle this problem.

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Which of these is a power reserved for state governments by the United States Constitution?

A. The power to coin money
B. The power to maintain an army and a navy
C. The power to establish public schools
D. The power to make treaties with foreign countries

In 2006 over 2/3rd of the people infected with HIV/AIDS lived in....
A) North Korea
B) Rwanda
C) Sudan
D) Sub-Saharan Africa

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why did many germans go along with the extreme measures?


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B; they didn't care

C; they provided order and ecurity

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The flag below was first used during the Civil War. What is this flag a symbol of? What does it represent to you today?

The first large-scale argument over slavery erupted in 1819 when Missouri petitioned for admittance into the Union. Many of the settlers in Missouri were slave owners who had migrated from the South with their slaves. These people wanted slavery to be an accepted part of the new state constitution. Other residents of the territory did not want slavery approved. More significantly, however, the politicians of the North and the South feared the admission of the new state because it would upset the balance of power in the Senate. Until this point, the struggle for power in the Senate had been tempered by the orderly admission of free and slave states to the Union. Earlier in 1819, the Union had been comprised of eleven free states and eleven slave states. Before Missouri petitioned for admittance into the Union, Alabama had been admitted as a slave state. If Missouri was admitted as another slave state, the balance of power would be lost.

The controversy over Missouri gained momentum when Representative James Tallmadge of New York proposed that "the further introduction of slavery" into the new state be forbidden and that the children of slaves presently living in the state be free when they reach twenty-five years of age. Because membership in the House of Representatives is based on population, and the North was the most populated region, the Tallmadge Amendment was passed and sent to the Senate. The amendment was finally defeated in the Senate after a long and forceful debate. The passage of the Tallmadge Amendment in the House crystallized in the minds of Southern senators the necessity of preserving the balance of power in the Senate. If the South could preserve this balance, it could block legislation passed by the Northern-dominated House that would in any way be detrimental to the welfare of the Southern states.

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16. How did the State Colonization Law of 1825 change Texas during the Mexican National era?

It increased the population by offering cheap land.

It allowed multiple religious groups to settle Texas

it prevented slavery from existing in Texas

Texas became a leader in the fishing industry,

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The Cold War was a struggle of what 3 dominance

Based on this excerpt, what is James Cross Giblin's attitude toward the
achievements of Thomas Young?

Ashoka created the
of
Ashoka to help control the empire,
spread religious tolerance and ideas
of nonviolence

What was the greatest source of conflict between the native American Indians in the European settlers

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A prominent Georgian who came up with the term "New South” was

Henry Grady.
John Gordon.
Booker T. Washington.
John Pemberton.

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Match each account of events with the type of chronology it illustrates.
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my school clothes. All the way to school
I worried about that bully Bobby
showing up. When I got there, I couldn't
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administer emergency care, and we
found one severely injured victim. At
5:20, Team B loaded that victim into
the ambulance. Meanwhile, at 5:05,
Team A declared the other two
victims to be in good health.
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civilization began to develop in the land
now called Italy. It grew to become a
republic. It continued to grow and
became an empire. Foreign invasions
and economic problems led to its
downfall. It lasted a few centuries AD.
Colonists declared themselves
independent of Britain in 1776. The
EmancipaNn Proclamation freed
enslaved people in 1863.
Reconstruction ended in 1877.
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What Law was passed by Henry VIII to make him the head of the Church

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All of the following expanded voting rights in America EXCEPT the:
Amendment
(B) 24th Amendment
(C) 22nd Amendment
(D) 15th Amendment

What effect did the Tripartite intervention have on Japanese nationalism?

If you had special powers, how would you have changed the Protestant Reformation.

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This episode describes the Clearview AI software, a face recognition technology that has been utilized in various capacities. Some law enforcement agencies have been using this technology to collect data on potential suspects. But this "search engine" can be used to collect data on any user who has an image posted online. Do you consider the use of this type of software to be too intrusive? Or do you think the benefit of catching dangerous criminals is more important than the risk of losing your privacy? Can you think of other possible risks this software may pose?
Post 5-8 statements and reply to another student's post in 3 or more statements


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Is this statement true or false? Vast, grassy plains known as pampas cover much of northern Venezuela. true false

Which bureaucratic function is NOT problematic?
shaping policy through rule-making
adjudicating disputes
implementing laws

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Read a sentence from the first draft of a document-based essay on the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany.


Hitler announced a boycott of Jewish-owned businesses.


Which details would provide helpful factual support for this sentence? Check all that apply.


the date Hitler made the announcement

the names of all German business owners

a quote from Hitler’s announcement

the reaction of Jewish business owners

the types of businesses that were boycotted

the names of popular German goods in the 1930s

Which of the following explains the difference between the information
presented in "Berlin Hosts the Olympics of 1936" and "The Politics of the 1936
Summer Olympics"?

What did patrons pay
for?