Describe how outside spending during campaigns has changed since 2000. What laws and Court decisions have impacted spending by outside groups? Describe the roles played by PACs, 527 groups, 501(c) groups, and Super PACs
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: An ideal response will:
1. Discuss how the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) or McCain-Feingold banned some expenditures that had been traditionally used.
2. Discuss how this led to a tremendous increase in 527 organizations beginning in 2004.
3. Discuss how in 2007, the Supreme Court's Wisconsin Right to Life case let issue ads proliferate via 527s and 501(c) organizations.
4. Discuss how the Citizens United Supreme Court decision resulted in an explosion in Super PACs.
5. Discuss how organizations adapt to the laws passed by Congress and the decisions handed down by the Supreme Court. This suggests that organizations find ways to collect and spend money by exploiting loopholes in the law in order to attempt to exercise influence in the political process.
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a. German unwillingness to allow American occupation following WWI. b. French animosity toward America. c. refusal of the U.S. Senate to support American involvement in the forum. d. Woodrow Wilson's stubborn refusal to involve America in Europe.
According to preponderance theory,
a. the most powerful nations are the most likely to start wars. b. dramatic imbalances of power are more peaceful. c. balances of power tend to be more peaceful. d. all states seek to change the status quo.
Karl Marx believed that his communist revolution would occur in which type of country?
A. A wealthy country B. A poor country C. A country without class stratification D. A country that relies foreign investment
Compare and contrast the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. How successful was the United States in these conflicts?
What will be an ideal response?