Corruption in America : from Benjamin Franklin's snuff box to Citizens United / Zephyr Teachout.
2014
KF9409 .T43 2014 (Mapit)
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Author
Title
Corruption in America : from Benjamin Franklin's snuff box to Citizens United / Zephyr Teachout.
Imprint
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Description
viii, 376 pages ; 22 cm
Formatted Contents Note
Four snuff boxes and a horse
Changing the frame
Removing temptations
Yazoo
Is bribery without a remedy?
Railroad ties
The forgotten law of lobbying
The gilded age
Two kinds of sticks
The jury decides
Operation Gemstone
A West Virginia state of mind
Citizens United
The new snuff boxes
Facts in exile, complacency, and disdain
The anticorruption principle conclusion
Appendix 1: Anticorruption constitutional provisions
Appendix 2: Major nineteenth- and twentieth-century anticorruption law.
Changing the frame
Removing temptations
Yazoo
Is bribery without a remedy?
Railroad ties
The forgotten law of lobbying
The gilded age
Two kinds of sticks
The jury decides
Operation Gemstone
A West Virginia state of mind
Citizens United
The new snuff boxes
Facts in exile, complacency, and disdain
The anticorruption principle conclusion
Appendix 1: Anticorruption constitutional provisions
Appendix 2: Major nineteenth- and twentieth-century anticorruption law.
Summary
In 1785, Louis XVI presented Benjamin Franklin with a snuff box encrusted with diamonds and inset with the King's portrait. Americans believed it threatened to "corrupt" Franklin by altering his attitude toward the French in subtle psychological ways. 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. With unlimited spending transforming American politics for the worse, warns Teachout, 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-358) and index.
Call Number
KF9409 .T43 2014
Language
English
ISBN
9780674050402 alkaline paper
0674050401 alkaline paper
0674050401 alkaline paper
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