What is the name given to the connection of interest groups, congressional committees, and bureaucracies?

________, written by Adam Smith, became the inspiration for the nineteenth-century liberal policy restricting government interference in economic matters.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

As the American colonies transformed themselves into sovereign states, republican sentiment was so strong in many of them that the _____ became all-powerful

A) legislatures B) courts C) executive branches D) state governments E) bureaucracies