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{{InuseGovernment Lectures}} '''American Government''' '''Ninth Lecture - Interest GroupsPolitical Parties, and a Look at Famous Trials'''
== Introduction ==
But the jury refused to find Penn guilty. The term “[[interest group]]” is defined in your glossary, pjudge angrily sent them back to continue deliberations. 309 The jury returned again with its same "not guilty" verdict. It is an organization of [[people]] who agree on an [[issue]]The judge demanded “a verdict that the court will accept, and try to influence [[government]] policy on that [[issue]]. Examples are [[pro-life]] groupsyou shall be locked up without meat, pro-[[environment]] groupsdrink, pro-[[gun rights]] groupsfire, pro-[[gun control]] groupsand tobacco....We will have a verdict by the help of God or you will starve for it.” The jury went out three more times, and so onreturned with the same verdict each time. How many can you name?Then it refused to deliberate any more and the judge fined and imprisoned them. Penn was also fined and imprisoned on a scurrilous new charge invented at trial (for donning a hat in the courtroom).
The motivation for an [[interest group]] is to work with both [[party|parties]] towards a specific goalimpact of the Penn trial has been enormous in two respects. It [[focus]]es on only one [[issue]]First, or a small [[number]] it established freedom of connected [[issue]]sreligion, and thus [[channel]]s all its [[energy]] towards that endwhich Penn brought to America in founding Pennsylvania a decade later. It is unconcerned with many other [[issue]]s affecting [[politics|political]] [[party|parties]]Philadelphia became the most populous city in the colonies, and the location for drafting the Constitution.
The [[Sierra Group]] is jury acquitted him anyway, thereby establishing freedom of the press (and also a famous pro-[[environment]] [[interest group]]type of freedom of speech). There are also [[pro-abortion]] [[interest group]]s This was another important example of jury nullification. To this day, England does not have the full freedom of speech and other [[interest group]]s for just about any [[issue]] imaginablethe press that Americans have because of the Zenger trial.
The [[interest group]]s will respond by saying that if a [[candidate]] is wrong on defendants took the [[pro-life]] [[issue]]witness stand in their defense, then that [[politician]] is usually wrong on everything else toobut were subjected to relentless questioning about their political beliefs. [[Vote]]rs don’t have the [[time]] or interest Defense counsel repeatedly objected to find out where [[candidate]]s stand on numerous [[issue]]s. Besidessuch questions, [[candidates]] often [[deceit|lie]]but the judge overruled the objections and allowed them. Find out where a [[candidate]] stands on There is widespread agreement that the [[pro-life|life issue]], and judge never should have permitted so much questioning about political beliefs at the rest is obvioustrial.
== Issues References ==
[[Category:Homeschool CurriculumAmerican Government lectures]]{{DEFAULTSORT:American Government Lecture 09}}