Why do political parties have so much influence on public policy? A) They tell people how to vote.

B) You have to be a Democrat or Republican to be elected to office.

C) They are highly organized, nominate candidates for president and vice president, and write a statement on their stand on public policy.

D) They have access to information that is denied the average citizen so they can achieve their goals in secret.

The ideas of hammond are most clearly an example of which of the following mid-19th century developments? (5 points) the increasingly liberal nature of slavery after the south enforced stronger slave codes the growing use by northern antislavery activists of moral arguments the increasing number of freed slaves in southern states as a result of gradual emancipation laws the growing tendency of southern slaveholders to use the paternal ethos to justify slavery