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When Louis XVI presented Benjamin Franklin with a snuff box encrusted with diamonds and inset with the King’s portrait.

When Louis XVI presented Benjamin Franklin with a snuff box encrusted with diamonds and inset with the King’s portrait. In Corruption in America, an eloquent, revealing, and sometimes surprising historical inquiry, Teachout convincingly argues that corruption, broadly understood as placing private interests over the public good in public office, is at the root of what ails American democracy.

Now Teachout’s book has appeared as Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s . It’s also supposed to strengthen the individual citizen’s faith in and respect for authority while also promoting the general welfare.

Now Teachout’s book has appeared as Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United, from Harvard University Press – an appreciably livelier title, increasing the likelihood (now pretty much a certainty) that it will inform the thinking of many rank-and-file Democratic Party supporters and activists. Whether it will resonate with their leaders beyond the level of campaign rhetoric is another matter. Each of the two parties has a revolving door between elected office and the lobbying sector.

Corruption in America book. If there’s one way to summarize Zephyr Teachout’s extraordinary book Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United, it is that today we are living in Benjamin Franklin’s dystopia.

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Former gubernatorial candidate Zephyr Teachout writes in her new book that the Citizens United decision is bad . The following excerpt is the introduction to Zephyr Teachout’s new book, Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United.

Former gubernatorial candidate Zephyr Teachout writes in her new book that the Citizens United decision is bad for politics and displays a poor understanding of history. The Citizens United decision was not merely bad law; it was bad for politics, and displayed an even worse understanding of history. Americans from James Madison onward have argued that it is possible for politicians and citizens alike to try to achieve a kind of public good in the public sphere.

In this book, Teachout, a Fordham University Law professor and .

In this book, Teachout, a Fordham University Law professor and one-time candidate for governor of New York, makes the case that throughout this country’s history, lawmakers have gone to great lengths to divide the personal from the political. Teachout notes, for instance, that when Benjamin Franklin was the United States’ ambassador to France and, during one of his visits, received a diamond-studded snuffbox, there was concern that the gift would sway his politics. In her view, Citizens United, the 2010 Supreme Court decision that loosened restrictions on political spending by corporations, has compromised that work.

Автор: Teachout Zephyr Название: Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin& Snuff . With unlimited spending transforming American politics for the worse, warns Zephyr Teachout, "Citizens United" and "McCutcheon" were not just bad law but bad history.

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. ООО "Логосфера " Тел:+7(495) 980-12-10 ww. ogobook.

The book is a critique of several recent Supreme Court decisions, especially Citizens United, in which the court repeatedly struck down campaign finance rules set by Congress, holding that campaign spending and donations are not a form of corruption. Teachout objects to the definition of corruption the court adopted, and most of the book is an exploration of what that simple word has meant and how the courts have interpreted it throughout the country’s history.

Published by: Harvard University Press. Benjamin Franklin’s will gave the king’s snuff box portrait to his daughter, Sarah, requesting that she would not form any of those diamonds into ornaments either for herself or daughters, and thereby introduce or countenance the expensive, vain, and useless fashion of wearing jewels in this country; and those immediately connected with the picture may be preserved with the same.