CLEP American Government
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People's Party or Populist Party
Went into effect 2004; put limits on gifts to political action committees. Now candidates have increasingly appealed to voters for small donations.
A third party whose platform was the opposition to large institutions run by and for the wealthy that seemed to increasingly control the nation: banks, railroads, corporations, and corrupt political machines.
Language in the Constitution that scholarly consensus views as having to do with the open discussion of public affairs
Manifestations, such as federal departments, that are not called for in the Constitution but are not seen as being at odds with it by a majority of Americans.