Mayday PAC Launch. Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim. @Google: Lawrence Lessig: Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It. Lawrence Lessig Occupy Wall Street Could Bridge Left And Right. Lawrence Lessig and Mark McKinnon: How to sober up Washington. The following op-ed, co-written by HLS Professor Lawrence Lessig and Daily Beast contributor Mark McKinnon, appeared in the Apr. 6 edition of the online publication. by Mark McKinnon and Lawrence Lessig Washington is hopelessly addicted to money and thus to the status quo; drunk with power and incapable of getting sober and fixing itself.
It’s time for an intervention—by the states. Politically, we two disagree on just about everything. And so too many throw up their hands and say, “We give up. But there is something we can do. The framers left open a path to amendment that doesn’t require the approval of Congress: a convention. Easy to do? Even if 34 states don’t call for a convention, history teaches that a real threat is often enough to get Congress to act. Some will resist the idea of a convention because they fear a “runaway” in which fringe elements would take over the agenda and propose radical amendments. Indeed, the movement has already begun. Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It. Rootstrikers. The Anti-Corruption Pledge. Call on your lawmakers to take the pledge Determining your location. Could not determine your location, try again? Determining your representatives.
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