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| Internet Resources | ||
| Common Cause | ||
( http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=186966 ) | ||
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| Christian Coalition | ||
( http://www.cc.org/ ) | ||
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| Amnesty International | ||
( http://www.amnesty.org/ ) | ||
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| Protest.Net | ||
( http://www.protest.net/ ) | ||
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| Greenpeace | ||
( http://www.greenpeace.org/ ) | ||
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| Yahoo Guide to Political Organizations | ||
( http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Politics/Organizations/ ) | ||
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| The Federal Election Commission | ||
| This is the home site of the principle federal regulator of interest group and PAC political action committee use of money in federal political campaigns. ( http://www.fec.gov/ ) | ||
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| The Public Interest Research Group PIRG | ||
| PIRG has chapters on many college campuses and the site provides state-by-state policy and other information. ( http://www.uspirg.org ) | ||
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| The Sierra Club | ||
| The Sierra Club, one of the oldest environmental protection interest groups, promotes conservation. Its website provides information on its activities. ( http://www.sierraclub.org/ ) | ||
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| Townhall.com | ||
| The website includes policy and political information and has a lively chat room. ( http://www.townhall.com/ ) | ||
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| Suggested Library of Congress Headings | ||
| American Civil Liberties Union | ||
| The ACLU is always prominent in First Amendment and other basic rights disputes. ( http://www.aclu.org/ ) | ||
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| ACLJ American Center for Law & Justice | ||
| Their specialty is church-and-state issues, and they often collide with the ACLU. In fact, the two of them tend to demonize each other! ( http://www.aclj.org/ ) | ||
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| NRA.org National Rifle Association | ||
| The principle source of opposition to most forms of gun control. ( http://www.nra.org/ ) | ||
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| The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence | ||
| A product of the anti-NRA efforts of Handgun Control, Inc. To adjudicate their gun control disputes for yourself, consult Gun Laws, Gun Control and Gun Rights from the Pittsburgh University School of Law's JURIST site. ( http://www.bradycampaign.org/ ) | ||
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| Find Law Professionals Election Law, Government Ethics & Lobbying | ||
| For those who are serious about attempting to regulate lobbying activity in Congress and state legislatures by the thousands of American interest groups. ( http://library.findlaw.com/1999/Jan/1/241466.html ) | ||
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| The Free Rider Problem | ||
| This site, from Russell Hardin of Stanford University, is a sophisticated treatment of a problem that is epidemic among American interest groups. ( http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/free-rider/ ) | ||
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