Political-Reform

Montana Voters Pass Corrupt Practices Act Banning Corporate Political Spending

1912-11-05 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 7/10

Montana voters approved the Corrupt Practices Act by ballot initiative with 76% support, establishing one of the nation’s strongest bans on corporate money in elections. The law responded directly to decades of systematic corruption by the “Copper Kings” - mining barons William A. …

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Jefferson Denounces Corrupt Bargain as Betrayal of Democratic Principles

1826-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 6/10

Thomas Jefferson and other Democratic-Republican leaders spent 1826 denouncing the Adams-Clay arrangement as a fundamental betrayal of democratic principles, helping Jackson’s supporters organize what would become the Democratic Party. Jefferson had privately expressed horror at the …

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