Special interest groups are groups of individuals and/or corporations that usually have a direct stake in the outcome of the policy making process. ... 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. Incidentally, according to a web site called "Common Cause-Soft Money Laundromat" the five largest contributors to political parties over the last 15 years have been: oil companies, pharmaceutical companies, tobacco companies, insurance companies and technology/telecommunicat...

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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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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 history as well as posterity was created, approved and just two years later instituted as the foundation for a fledging yet promising nation destined for greatness. It was a great concept envisioned by extraordinary men, a system in which the people of the land reign, governing through democratically ...

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