There is indeed. If you look at what happened just last week, the Republican majority in the House of Representatives refused to pass the Disclose Act, a simple piece of legislation that would have said the large donors to these super PACs and the campaign attack ads, we have to find out who they are.
Brian Baird discusses the resistance to transparency in campaign finance and stock trading disclosures.
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If we don't find some mechanism to disincentivize non-electoral interventions... we create an incentive for mayhem.
If you don't provide some mechanism for that to happen in times of crisis... you are essentially potentially abdicating the Article I branch responsibilities.
If people in the congressional -- in Congress say that in some ways they are morally superior and they would never abuse something or that the laws should not apply to them, well, we've got a serious problem on our hand.
It is not fair to say, or accurate to say that the Framers only accepted elections, direct elections as valid means of representation.
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