Campaign finance in the United States

congressional reapportionment and explain one reason why it is important to states. Congressional reapportionment is when there is a change in the amount of seats in the House of Representatives after the United States Census, or decennial census. It is important to states because they can be able to become more important if they receive more representatives. Define congressional redistricting. Congressional redistricting is when a state has more representatives rather than districts so they…

money to run a campaign, the politicians do not have bow their heads to big donors anymore. Therefore, people can reduce the influence of big money by contributing small amount of money to the candidates of their choice. Wolf PAC is a non-partisan political action committee with the goal of ending corporate personhood and publicly financing all elections in the country by adding a 28th amendment to the Constitution. This organization has more than 20,000 volunteers working in all 50 state. The…

Mini Essay #1: U.S Political Parties Some extant political parties in the United States today that hold different positions on key issues. The six major political parties are the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, the Libertarian Party, the Green Party, the Constitution Party, and the Peace and Freedom Party. The Republican Party is one of the parties of the United States’ two-party system. Some key platforms of the Republican Party are the Electoral College, traditional marriage, coal…

Protected Status (TPS) extended to some 50,000 Haitians living in the United States will expire and unless extended most of them will be deported to an uncertain future in a country still dealing with the aftermath of natural disasters. After the devastating earthquake that hit Port-au-Prince on January 12, 2010, the Obama administration granted Temporary Protected Status to Haitian immigrants who were already in the United States. This protected status protects them from deportation. The…

The controversy circulating the idea that money is a freedom of expression and protected by the 1st amendment has been an active topic of discussion while debating the use of corporate money for political campaigns. These disputes are typically about whether or not limits on spending money should be engaged and regulated to keep the election process fair. And although money does play a big role in informing political messages, it can only really serve as a mainstay for a corporation’s tactic of…

on how this effect exaggerates the incumbent advantage, however. The theory that drives this idea is built on the notion that, through careful research and calculation, incumbents can accurately predict the outcome of an election before the peak campaign season has even begun. While…

Campaign Finance and the Supreme Court In 1974 Congress passed (and then President Ford signed) a set of Amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971. These amendments included prohibiting individuals from donating over a specific amount of money ($1000) to any one campaign, and limited the total contributions to $25,000 for all federal campaigns combined. The amendments also included limiting the amount of money that a candidate could contribute and spend on their own campaign and…

Recruiting candidates for public office. Political parties of the united states do a variety of things. There are five main functions that political parties have. Recruiting candidates for public office are one of the most important functions that political parties have. An important goal of political parties is to gain control of the government and to do this parties must work to recruit candidates for all elected offices. For example, if a state had an opening for governor each political party…

election season and seemingly everyone has their own fix. Corruption today can be quickly discovered if one just follows the trail of dark money. Funds given to a politician from a corporation, whether in a campaign or as lobbying, is referred to as dark money by liberal politicians. Citizens United V. FEC was a supreme court case which ruled that money is speech and thus corporations can give endless sums of money to politicians under their constitutional protection of free speech. Liberal…

crimes committed by the president in which led to Supreme Court involvement. Eventually, resignation was the only option for Nixon to avoid impeachment and further embarrassment. The Supreme Court case: United States v. Nixon (1974) resulted in multiple negative effects on the people of the United States such as a lasting distrust in American government, numerous failed attempts at financial reform, and a decreasing voter turnout. Initially, the Watergate scandal was uncovered to the public…