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Corruption in America - From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United (Paperback)
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Corruption in America - From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United (Paperback)
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Loot Price R532
Discovery Miles 5 320
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When Louis XVI presented Benjamin Franklin with a snuff box
encrusted with diamonds and inset with the King's portrait, the
gift troubled Americans: it threatened to "corrupt" Franklin by
clouding his judgment or altering his attitude toward the French in
subtle psychological ways. This broad understanding of political
corruption-rooted in ideals of civic virtue-was a driving force at
the Constitutional Convention. For two centuries the framers' ideas
about corruption flourished in the courts, even in the absence of
clear rules governing voters, civil officers, and elected
officials. Should a law that was passed by a state legislature be
overturned because half of its members were bribed? What kinds of
lobbying activity were corrupt, and what kinds were legal? When
does an implicit promise count as bribery? In the 1970s the U.S.
Supreme Court began to narrow the definition of corruption, and the
meaning has since changed dramatically. No case makes that clearer
than Citizens United. In 2010, one of the most consequential Court
decisions in American political history gave wealthy corporations
the right to spend unlimited money to influence elections. Justice
Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion treated corruption as nothing
more than explicit bribery, a narrow conception later echoed by
Chief Justice Roberts in deciding McCutcheon v. FEC in 2014. With
unlimited spending transforming American politics for the worse,
warns Zephyr Teachout, Citizens United and McCutcheon were not just
bad law but bad history. If the American experiment in
self-government is to have a future, then we must revive the
traditional meaning of corruption and embrace an old ideal.
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