Pros And Cons Of Interest Groups

The United states of America has been built upon freedom of speech and criticizing the Government. As a matter fact, these freedoms have been the reason for the people to gather and announce their ideas to the public and the government. These group were with America from its origin, and even James Madison in the Federalist number 10 had mentioned about these factions. He believed that these factions are not good, but they are inevitable and necessary for the democracy (Federalist 10). Likewise, at this time we know those factions as interest groups, and there are many of them in the state of Texas that are daily changing or affecting a law that is getting passed by the representatives. Obviously, these effects have its pros and cons in the legislative branch of the state of Texas.
The factions or interest groups are the important for the democracy, and just like James Madison have stated, the factions are like an air for fire but they are also important for living. He believed that factions could be useful if they put some restrictions and have control on them. Interest groups are spending about 7 billion dollars to get the representatives to vote in their favor (Ramsey). Thus, government should put tougher restrictions on the spending of the interest groups, and it should have stricter oversight on them. They might be important for the democracy, but
Giving more power to the interest group is dangerous for democracy, and it will give the ability to them to even change some laws that the majority of Texans do not want it to change. Thus, Government should either put lots of limits on the strong interest groups or help the weaker interest groups to compete with the stronger