Pressure Group Example for Exams

Students of A Level Politics are required, at least for EDEXCEL, to use up-to-date examples to support their responses in order to gain high marks.

So, here is a great example of a students studying US pressure groups (interest groups).

PETA are using litigation to exert pressure on SeaWorld as they claim that the organisation is violating the Orcas constitutional rights, particularly the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in the US and prohibits involuntary servitude.

Here is the Telegraph’s coverage of the story

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Pressure groups in action: carry on, doctor [17 Mar 2011]
Tory Party Bankrolled by City [9 Feb 2011]
Pressure groups and democracy [21 Dec 2010]
The student protests and civil liberties [26 Nov 2010]
Politics Classroom Posters - Pressure Groups [10 Aug 2010]
Gun crime debate [13 Oct 2009]
Pressure group power [12 Sep 2009]
Keeping up with Obama [29 Jul 2009]
Obama and the race row [25 Jul 2009]
Less advice and consent? [25 Jul 2009]
Obama health check [19 Jul 2009]
Whither support for war on terror? [18 Jul 2009]
Sotomayor and being sleepless in Seattle [18 Jul 2009]
Obama and race [18 Jul 2009]
Obama lacking leadership? [18 Jul 2009]
Who’s Roe in Roe v Wade? [7 Jul 2009]
“American Dream” or “American nightmare”? [6 Jul 2009]
Report prize winner [6 Jul 2009]
Palin’s greatest hits [5 Jul 2009]
US foreign policy milestone [30 Jun 2009]
Checks and balances at its best, or partisan obstructionism of the worst kind? [28 Jun 2009]
Book for the beach [23 Jun 2009]
Change to come in America? [19 Jun 2009]
US revision: comparing civil liberties [18 Jun 2009]
US revision: Obama’s health care reform [16 Jun 2009]
Useful Obama links [16 Jun 2009]
Americana- New Programme on BBC Radio 4 [10 Jun 2009]
Post AS: A2 American delivery [3 Jun 2009]
Pressure group success in action [21 May 2009]
AS revision: UK pressure groups and democracy [17 May 2009]
US politics: additions to departmental stock [28 Oct 2008]
Pressure group methods [8 Sep 2008]
US politics: lobbyists [26 Aug 2008]
Brown’s revolting problem [1 Mar 2008]