They became rivals because each one wanted more power than the other for example in world war 2 the USA made the atomic bomb which showed the world that the Americans were the most powerful country but after ww2 Russia and USA started a Cold War which lead to the feud between there political views and the start of better technology and the space race
<em>The Ottoman Empire was declined due to nationalism and a weak economy. ... When the Ottoman Empire weakened, social, political and economic effects occurred. Corruption and theft caused financial chaos. The Ottomans were behind the Europeans in modern technology.</em>
Water power, iron, rivers, harbors
The campaign finance laws restrict the power of corporations and unions because they limit their capacity to do lobbying. Corporation and unions base much of their power in their faculty to influence members of the congress, secretaries of the government and important people of the political world, Lobbying is not ilegal in the USA. When laws state that there are caps for contributions for political campaigns they somehow limit the power of Lobbying doers. The logic behind limiting laws is that authorities have to work for people not for groups of people.