Campaign finance reform
Without which bought-and-paid-for government swamps democracySixth of the best to keep them honest
The sixth point of the Chartist’s six-point plan is sublimely simple. To counter parliamentary corruption and bought elections, simply hold far more frequent elections, so that, with the many times more voters called for in the first point: ‘…no purse could…
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Jefferson’s words thrill radical youth eternal: ‘That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is in the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles…
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