On Jan. 21, a 5-4 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court set back the United States electoral process to the 18th century in its decision in Citizens United v. FEC . The five self-styled “strict constructionists” stood the First Amendment on its side, diluted the strength of our citizens’ control of the electoral process and empowered the vast combination of financial giants we call private corporations.
What escaped these strict constructionists was that historically, concentrations of great wealth were not included in the electoral process as long ago as Athenian democracy and were not recognized in our original Constitution. The word “corporation” does not appear in that document.
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