Corruption in America : : From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United / / Zephyr Teachout.
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. Th...
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Teachout, Zephyr, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Corruption in America : From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United / Zephyr Teachout. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (360 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Four Snuff Boxes and a Horse -- 2 Changing the Frame -- 3 Removing Temptations -- 4 Yazoo -- 5 Is Bribery without a Remedy? -- 6 Railroad Ties -- 7 The Forgotten Law of Lobbying -- 8 The Gilded Age -- 9 Two Kinds of Sticks -- 10 The Jury Decides -- 11 Operation Gemstone -- 12 A West Virginia State of Mind -- 13 Citizens United -- 14 The New Snuff Boxes -- 15 Facts in Exile, Complacency, and Disdain -- 16 The Anticorruption Principle -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Anticorruption Constitutional Provisions -- Appendix 2: Major Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Century Anticorruption Laws -- Notes -- Cases Cited -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Judicial corruption United States History. Political corruption United States History. Political culture United States. LAW / Legal History. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014 9783110369526 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Law 2014 9783110370232 ZDB-23-DGC Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665901 print 9780674050402 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674736221 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674736221 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674736221.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Four Snuff Boxes and a Horse -- 2 Changing the Frame -- 3 Removing Temptations -- 4 Yazoo -- 5 Is Bribery without a Remedy? -- 6 Railroad Ties -- 7 The Forgotten Law of Lobbying -- 8 The Gilded Age -- 9 Two Kinds of Sticks -- 10 The Jury Decides -- 11 Operation Gemstone -- 12 A West Virginia State of Mind -- 13 Citizens United -- 14 The New Snuff Boxes -- 15 Facts in Exile, Complacency, and Disdain -- 16 The Anticorruption Principle -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Anticorruption Constitutional Provisions -- Appendix 2: Major Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Century Anticorruption Laws -- Notes -- Cases Cited -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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