Interest groups date back to the year of 1834, when a young French social historian was amazed at how Americans formed groups in which they could solve problems. Today, in the United States, there are thousands of these same groups . They share common objectives, beliefs, and attitudes. Interest groups form an organization to attempt to influence policymakers, and in my opinion should be legal to a certain degree. Interest groups are both small and large, some …showed first 75 words of 680 total…

…showed last 75 words of 680 total…government should have them under microscope for unethical practices that may influence politicians. The reasons there are interest groups is for citizens to bring light on certain situations and to share that with politicians. Situations like the killing of rainforest, and national gun control, or even abortion. If America did not have interest groups the government would have the power to impose laws that its citizens would not support therefore eventually destroying our constitutional government.