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Lawrence Lessig is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, and author of Republic, Lost.
The framers intended Congress to be “dependent upon the People alone,” but the private funding of public campaigns has bred within Congress a conflicting dependency.
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