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72 approximately 100 every day

Ibid.

73 lawyers and lobbyists flooded the U.S. Capitol and state legislatures

Ibid.

74 U.S. Supreme Court voided and made unenforceable

Jack Maskell, ”Lobbying Congress: An Overview of Legal Provisions and Congressional Ethics Rules,” CRS Report for Congress, September 14, 2011, digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metacrs1903/m1/1/high_res_d/RL31126_2001Sep14.pdf.

75 ”all the injurious effects of a direct fraud on the public”

Ibid.

76 ”measuring the decay of the public morals”

Lawrence Lessig, Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress-and a Plan to Stop It (New York: Twelve, 2011), p. 101.

77 Georgia's new const.i.tution explicitly banned the lobbying

Ibid., p. 101.

78 ”where the price of votes was haggled over, and laws”

Matthew Josephson, The Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalist 18611901 (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2010), p. 168.

79 Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company

Bakan, The Corporation, p. 16.

80 some historians believe was written by Justice Stephen Field

Joshua Holland, ”The Supreme Court Sold Out Our Democracy-How to Fight the Corporate Takeover of Elections,” AlterNet, October 25, 2010.