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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, http://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.
81 court reporter, who was the former president of a railway company
Ibid.
82 "the court does not wish to hear"
Pamela Karlan, "Me, Inc.," Boston Review, July 2011.
83 "We are all of the opinion that it does"
Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific, Justia.com, 1886, http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/118/394/.
84 laid the first transoceanic telegraph cable in 1858
"Cyrus W. Field," Encyclopaedia Britannica, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/206188/Cyrus-W-Field.
85 resulted in Stephen's appointment to the Supreme Court
Lincoln Inst.i.tute, "David Dudley Field (18051894)," Mr. Lincoln and New York, http://www.mrlincolnandnewyork.org/inside.asp?ID=56&subjectID=3.
86 subsequent ma.s.sacre back to the United States in real time
Mike Sacks, "Corporate Citizens.h.i.+p: How Public Dissent in Paris Sparked Creation of the Corporate Person," Huffington Post, October 12, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/12/corporate-citizens.h.i.+p-corporate-personhood-paris-commune_n_1005244.html.
87 followed in the United States, as it unfolded, on a daily basis
Ibid.
88 Franco-Prussian War that month and the struggle
Alice Bullard, Human Rights and Revolutions, edited by Jeffrey N. Wa.s.serstrom, Lynn Hunt, and Marilyn B. Young (Oxford: Rowan & Littlefield, 2000), pp. 8183.
