Why is campaign finance a concern in the united states?

a: one party can usually raise much more money then the other one can.

b: the need to raise campaign funds may led to post-election corruption.

c: very few people contribute to election campaigns.

d: congress has no power to make laws regulating campaign.

The answer is:

B: The need to raise campaign funds may led to post-election corruption.

The need to raise campaign funds means that someone has to give you money, someone has to support a certain candidate, and the candidate might feel obligated to pay back with political favors, or in the best of cases just be biased towards whom donated him money to run for a political job, as if he had sponsors that payed for him to get to where he is.

study of past cultures

in the united states, the president is controlled by the

constitution, and in all respects subordinate to it. insofar

as it deals with presidential power, however, the american

constitution has proved to be a highly malleable document.

with very few exceptions,' the constitutional provisions relating to the president have not been changed at all since

they were ratified in 1787. but in the late twentieth century, those provisions do not mean what they meant in

1787. the constitution is a legal document, and it is enforced judicially; but its meaning was hardly fixed when it

was ratified. in particular, the contemporary president has

far broader powers than the original constitution contemplated. it is remarkable but true that large-scale changes in

the authority of the president have been brought about

without changes in the constitutional text, but nevertheless

without significant illegality.

this is a paradox. is it not clear that constitutional

changes, if not textual, are illegal? the paradox has considerable relevance to our current thinking about the presidency in particular and about constitutionalism in general.

perhaps the framers of the american constitution feared

legislative power most of all; 2 but from well-known events

in the twentieth century, it is possible to conclude that it is

presidential power that holds out the greatest risks to both

liberty and democracy. the president is by far the most visible leader in the nation; he is often the only person in government with a national constituency. moreover, he is