Dollarocracy
“This seems an acceptable purpose and the means chosen a common sense way to achieve it. The Court nevertheless holds that a candidate has a constitutional right to spend unlimited amounts of money, mostly that of other people, in order to be elected. The holding perhaps is not that federal candidates have the constitutional right to purchase their election, but many will so interpret the Court’s conclusion in this case. I cannot join the Court in this respect.
JUSTICE BYRON WHITE, DISSENT FROMT...HE SUPREME COURT’S BUCKLEY V. VALEO DECISION, 1976 In 1973, when the U.S. Senate voted to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act not only to address the obvious abuses of the Watergate moment but also to stall the slide toward Dollarocracy, the New York Times celebrated the establishment of “the first effective curbs in American political history on the influence of the rich in government.”1 A year later, over the veto of President Gerald Ford, the amended law was put into place. For a brief shining moment, it looked as if the United States might actually mark its bicentennial by finally realizing Thomas Jefferson’s last hope for the republic: “that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.”2 Unfortunately, the U.S.MoreLess
JUSTICE BYRON WHITE, DISSENT FROMT...HE SUPREME COURT’S BUCKLEY V. VALEO DECISION, 1976 In 1973, when the U.S. Senate voted to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act not only to address the obvious abuses of the Watergate moment but also to stall the slide toward Dollarocracy, the New York Times celebrated the establishment of “the first effective curbs in American political history on the influence of the rich in government.”1 A year later, over the veto of President Gerald Ford, the amended law was put into place. For a brief shining moment, it looked as if the United States might actually mark its bicentennial by finally realizing Thomas Jefferson’s last hope for the republic: “that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.”2 Unfortunately, the U.S.MoreLess
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