A Gerrymander is an oddly shaped district that is designed to increase the voting strength and power of one political party at the expense of another. As a result of the manipulation of district boundaries, the shape of political map becomes altered and distorted.
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A Gerrymander. GERRY + SALAMANDER (from the shape of an election district created while Gerry was governor of Massachusetts).
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The Farmers' Alliance was designed to promote higher commodity prices through collective action by groups of individual farmers. It grew out of the Grange Movement.
The advantage of a political group is that it aligns people who share views on policy, and gives them strength in numbers. A disadvantage is when people become so entrenched in their views they are unwilling to compromise for the greater good.
Interest groups pay lobbying groups who send lobbyists to meet Congress members and try to persuade them to agree with the Interest groups' positions.
The Judicial Branch doesn't have branches, it has courts:US District Courts (trial courts)US Court of International Trade (trial court)US Court of Appeals Circuit Courts (appellate courts)Supreme Court of the United States (final appellate court)