Corruption in America

Informationen zum Autor Zephyr Teachout is Associate Professor of Law at Fordham University. Klappentext When Louis XVI gave Ben Franklin a diamond-encrusted snuffbox, the gift troubled Americans: it threatened to corrupt him by clouding his judgment. By contrast, in 2010 the Supreme Court gave corporations the right to spend unlimited money to influence elections. Zephyr Teachout shows that Citizens United was both bad law and bad history. Zusammenfassung When Louis XVI gave Ben Franklin a diamond-encrusted snuffbox, the gift troubled Americans: it threatened to corrupt him by clouding his judgment. By contrast, in 2010 the Supreme Court gave corporations the right to spend unlimited money to influence elections. Zephyr Teachout shows that Citizens United was both bad law and bad history.

Product details

• Authors: Zephyr Teachout, Teachout Zephyr
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9780674659988
• ISBN: 978-0-674-65998-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 209 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; USA, LAW / Legal History, LAW / Constitutional, Legal History, United States of America, USA, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general