b. Influencing public opinion and forming political action committees
Interests groups form around an issue they want legal action taken. They will use marketing methods to influence public opinion through media and campaigning. If they form a political action committee then they will back political candidates and possibly provide money for a political candidate's campaign. Interest groups in the US include AARP, Family Research Council, and the NAACP.
It would me an <em>imagined political community</em>. Because, of these reasons.
Nation
- A people or group that shares a common history, language, religion or other cultural elements
- Establishes a nationality or " an imagined political community"
- Can promote nationalism
*Notes taken from Lesson :)
Society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societies are characterized by patterns of relationships (social relations) between individuals who share a distinctive culture and institutions; a given society may be described as the sum total of such relationships among its constituent of members. In the social sciences, a larger society often exhibits stratification or dominance patterns in subgroups.
Insofar as it is collaborative, a society can enable its members to benefit in ways that would not otherwise be possible on an individual basis; both individual and social (common) benefits can thus be distinguished, or in many cases found to overlap. A society can also consist of like-minded people governed by their own norms and values within a dominant, larger society. This is sometimes referred to as a subculture, a term used extensively within criminology.
More broadly, and especially within structuralist thought, a society may be illustrated as an economic, social, industrialor cultural infrastructure, made up of, yet distinct from, a varied collection of individuals. In this regard society can mean the objective relationships people have with the material world and with other people, rather than "other people" beyond the individual and their familiar social environment.
extradite
Backing in the history, Texas could be remained an independent nation by different situations. First, If Henry Clay had won the election instead of James Polk, Texas would remain independent for at least 4 more years, and Clay would run the party program around the "American system," a program designed to unify all portions of the country through the economic policies outlined by Alexander Hamilton in his Manufacturing Report. Second, If Texas simply does not join the Union, this could be because of Americans fear of war with Mexico or Texas nationalists continue hold power and refuse to join the U.S.. In this scenario Nationalists keep power in Texas and it simply does not negotiate, if this happened it would be very doubtful the Texan Republic would have survived. Texas was never meant to be an independent nation, it was too under populated and largely rural. Third, If the Republic of Texas was controlled by nationalists it would either collapse under its own debt become absorbed by the U.S. or Mexico or be a weak country surrounded by 2 powers. This way, if we assumed if the Republic of Texas remained independent, probably Mexico would threat war, Britain would try preventing westward expansion, Mexico would preach Americans despoil it of Texas, Mexico would not recognize Texas’ independence. On the other hand, Democrats would be pro-expansion, the Popular idea would be in the south, not the north, and Texas would remain an independent nation would not have brought the U.S. into a series of wars.
In the pivotal case of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racially separate facilities, if equal, did not violate the Constitution. Segregation, the Court said, was not discrimination.
