First, because interest groups have stronger and more realistic opinions about public policies (advantageous or not). Second, they are reference of economic, political and religious positions that also involve or interfere in numerous public policies. And third, interest groups are able to pressure congressmen (legislators) on some issues considered as urgent by them.
<em>All interest groups share a desire to affect government policy to benefit themselves or their causes.</em>
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a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Newton, and its prominent figures included Kant, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith.
B. In larger groups of people, organization was essential to survival; men took the more powerful role.
The Mississippi River is the only big waterway on the
Confederate side. Control of this river by the Union meant fast travel of
troops and supplies and ease of bombardment of many important cities by the river.
Vicksburg was a fortress city that controlled the last Confederate controlled
section of the river. Grant’s campaign and success against Vicksburg cut off
Arkansas and Texas from Richmond, gave the Union a waterway for commerce, and
replenishment of troops and supplies.
