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In an era of ballooning commercial campaign expenditures, unleashed by the Supreme Court in Residents United, trust in our government reaches an all time low. As part of your before, Americans believe money buys results Congress - and that our Republic has been lost. Using cases that resonate as powerfully on the proper as on the Left, Republic, Lost not only makes clear how the economy of affect defeats the will of the people, but offers cogent strategies to appropriate our course - from a constitutional convention to a Regent Presidency. A onetime good friend of Barack Obama, Lessig, a professor of rules at Harvard, is as critical of the chief executive and the Democratic Party as he is of Republicans. Both have allowed the core organization of your democracy to be little more than a shill for the most effective moneyed interests in our Republic. America may be divided, argues Lessig, but we must recognize that corruption is our common adversary, and we must find a way to fight against it.
