(Page: 1)                  Interest Group is defined as 'an organized body of individuals who try to influence public policy.' This system is designed so that interest groups would be an instrument of public influence on politics to create changes, but would not threaten the government much. Whether this is still the case or not is an important question that we must find out. Interest groups play many different roles in the American political system, such as …showed first 75 words of 1025 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1025 total…the militant feminists had used civil disobedience, colorful (Page: 5) demonstrations and incessant lobbying to get the Nineteenth Amendment out of Congress.         These are just some of the ways that American politics in the twentieth century was influenced by special interest groups. Interest groups have grown this much in this century and will probably keep progressing in the coming centuries.                   Bibliography 1.         Groliers Encyclopedia on CD-Rom, 1993 Grolier Inc., Software Toolworks Inc. 2.         Ideas Move Nations, The Atlantic Monthly, 1986