what are lobbyistis and constituens?

Answer 1

Lobbying can consist of the private cajoling of legislative members, public actions (e.g. mass demonstrations), or combinations of both public and private actions (e.g. encouraging constituents to contact their legislative representatives). There exist large differences in the effectiveness of lobbyist groups.

A constituent is someone who can or does appoint or elect (and often by implication can also remove or recall) another as their agent or representative. A constituency is all the constituents of a particular agent or representative.

Answer 2

lobbyists work to influence legislators in Washington or in state government. Typically they represent what are called "Special Interest Groups."

For illustration, let's say you are a farmer in the state of Pennsylvania. You just learned that the state wants to stop you from using a kind of fertilizer that you have used for a long time, and had no problems with it. This new fertilizer is a lot more expensive, a lot more difficult to use and is going to make your life a lot more difficult, and you don't think there's any advantage in making the change.

You and your neighbors haven't got the time to go to Philadelphia and complain, but you feel that your voices should be heard.

This is where a lobbyist could come in. You and your neighbors could hire one, thus he becomes your spokesperson at the capital, and he is the one that voices your concerns to the politicians.

Now this is a very simplistic example, but in theory, this is what a lobbyist does...

Constituents are simply the people a particular legislator represents.

Answer 3

Lobbyists usually represent a special interest group (like the NRA or AARP, for example), who beg, importune, wine and dine our elected representatives in an effort to either get laws passed that their group favors or to defeat laws that their group doesn't like.

Constituents are all citizens who live in the district that an elected representative represents, even those who didn't vote for that elected official.

Lobbyists might or might not be among the constituents of the official they are lobbying. Constituents can lobby for a particular law or against a particular law, and thereby behave like a lobbyist, but if they are representing their own personal interests then they aren't usually lobbyists.

Answer 4

In terms of politics, constituents are the citizens that an elected offical represents. For example the congressman from my district is Chris Smith, so everyone that lives in this district is a constituent of his.

Lobbyists are people who represent various interests and use their access to influence those officials. For example, lets say there is a garment factory in my district. The garment company might hire a lobbyist to talk to Congressman Smith to encourage him to support tariffs on garments coming to the US from a foreign country so he they can compete better. Lobbyists usually get a bad rap, as many are seen as weilding undue power in Washington DC, getting congress to authorize spending that helps only a few people at the expense of many.

Many lobbyists are working for noble causes though, like trying to get more funding for cancer research or something like that.

Answer 5

Lobbyists are those people, who are paid to promote an agenda. Such as if I worked for someone who wanted to change the laws of a state or the country, that made it legal to carry guns openly. Then it would be my job, to talk a senator or representative, and try to get him to support the view of my employer, in order to get that law or bill passed.

Constituents are those people, such as you and I, that the government is supposed to listen to, and run the government in our best interests. My senator, in my district, is supposed to represent the views of my community as a whole. And we citizens, in his district, are known as his constituents.

Answer 6

A lobbyist is a person paid by a special interest group to speak to politians and try to persuede them to see their clients view.

A constituent is a citizen who is represented by an elected official. Think of your congressman/woman to him/her you are thier constituent...the people they represent are constituents.

Answer 7

Scam artists

Answer 8

I had Lobbyistis! The doctor gave me a cream and it cleared up.