Expressing agreement with a colleague's statement.
04/11/2016
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Our Constitution begins with the words, 'We, the People of the United States.'
They want a Government 'of the people, by the people and for the people,' as Abraham Lincoln famously put it in the Gettysburg Address.
Teddy Roosevelt proposed the first campaign finance reforms, limiting the role of corporations in the political process.
The idea that these appearances have no effect on the confidence that the electorate has in us and in our democracy is naive, to put it mild...