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AP U.S. Government 3.4 Political Parties, Interest Groups, and Mass Media. What did the Constitution's framers do?

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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by single issue interest groups Factions with

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an obsessive state of mind Yeah alright the constitution's framers

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What And hear the potential answers Yeah just left to

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complete the sentence What the constitutional framers report for opposed

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All right tell that so The constitution's framers weren't on

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ly tasked with mounting one of our nation's most important

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political documents They also debated the rules of interest groups

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and political parties cutting no corners in their broad discussions

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of those with more narrow interests Did the constitution's framers

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a opposed political parties but accept less formal interest groups

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Well the constitution's framers wanted nothing to do with political

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parties at least not the ones that didn't serve free

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food since they felt politicians should put aside their interests

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and act for the common good That being said they

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also weren't big fans of interest groups since they believed

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citizens should also pursue the path of least resistance and

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act for the common good So that steers us away

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from both Andy did the constitution's framers see opposed on

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lee single issue interest groups will single issue interest groups

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Like the nra or people for the ethical treatment of

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animals have a laser like focus on one specific area

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Interest groups based on demographics like the american association of

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retired persons or the national organization for women They advocate

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on behalf of a constituency of a whole host of

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issues But we already know that the framers had little

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to no interest in supporting either kind of group which

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means the constitution's framers e opposed both political parties and

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interest groups The framers were convinced the political parties and

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interest groups would destroy representative government since they believe these

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narrowly focused factions would advocate on ly for laws that

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help their specific causes So option is the correct answer

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The authors of the constitution may have gotten a lot

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of things right but they totally missed the boat on

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political parties which have dominated american government for more than

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two hundred years And who knows you know maybe they're 00:02:05.059 --> [endTime] invitations got lost in the mail

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