Explain how interest groups make use of the public in their efforts to influence policy and legislation.

Milton Friedman argued that economic freedom promotes political freedom because

a. a nation that has limited economic freedom cannot enjoy political freedom. b. economists are better politicians than those of other professions. c. free trade encourages political freedom in other countries. d. it separates economic power from political power and allows the former to offset the latter. e. political freedom is a condition for economic freedom.

The first American political parties emerged from the conflict between

A. the older eastern states and the newer western states. B. slave states and free states. C. business and labor. D. small farmers and states' rights advocates, and those favoring commercial and wealthy interests. E. Protestants and Catholics.