Republic, Lost
How Money Corrupts Congress — And A Plan To Stop It
Book Summary
A Harvard Law professor explains how being influenced by money overshadows the will of the people in the political arena regardless of party lines and offers strategies to take back the democracy from those with moneyed or corporate interests.
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The Occupy and Tea Party movements have similar opinions when it comes to the 2008 bank bailout, the federal deficit, government spending and the influence of corporations and money on Congress. Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig says there's a reason both the left and the right feel there's too much power in too few hands. "We have a government where members spend between 30 and 70 percent of their time raising money to get back to Congress, [and a Congress] that is increasingly dependent on
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