Corruption in America : from Benjamin Franklin's snuff box to Citizens United
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Four snuff boxes and a horse -- Intellectual influences on the framing conceptions -- Removing temptations -- An architecture of obstacles -- Corrupt kings, corrupt judges, and the critics -- Yazooism -- Is bribery without a remedy? -- The railroads, corruption, and judicial review -- Corrupt lobbying -- Treats, spoils, and the ballot with the flaming pink border -- Teddy Roosevelt's vision and the courts -- The jury decides -- Operation Gemstone -- Corrupt campaign contributions -- Citizens United -- The new snuff boxes -- Abstraction, innocence, dissonance, complacency, and contempt -- The revival of the American corruption principle -- Possibilities for current reform -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Anti-corruption constitutional provisions -- Appendix 2: Major twentieth-century anti-corruption law.
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Political corruption--United States Judicial corruption--United States Political culture--United States