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Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex (New York: Random House, 2002), p. 364.
106 William Howard Taft, abandoned many of TR's reforms
"American President: William Howard Taft," Miller Center, University of Virginia, http://millercenter.org/president/taft/essays/biography/1.
107 "corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit"
Theodore Roosevelt, "The New Nationalism," August 31, 1910, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/tr-nationalism/.
108 given privileges to which they are not ent.i.tled
Lessig, Republic, Lost, p. 4.
109 "twist the methods of free government"
Ibid., p. 5. Theodore Roosevelt, "From the Archives: President Teddy Roosevelt's New Nationalism Speech," August 31, 2010, http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/12/06/archives-president-teddy-roosevelts-new-nationalism-speech.
110 "prohibit the use of corporate funds"
Roosevelt, "From the Archives: President Teddy Roosevelt's New Nationalism Speech."
111 "does not give the right of suffrage to any corporation"
Ibid.
112 secretly bribed Harding administration officials
United States Senate, "19211940: Senate Investigates the 'Teapot Dome' Scandal," http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Senate_Investigates_the_Teapot_Dome_Scandal.htm.
113 "menace to the welfare of the nation"
Jeffrey Rosen, "POTUS v. SCOTUS," New York, March 17, 2010.
114 Historians differ on whether Roosevelt's threat was the cause
"Presidential Politics," American Experience, FDR, PBS, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/fdr-presidential/.
115 began approving the const.i.tutionality
Ibid.
116 return court rulings to the philosophy that existed prior to the New Deal
Jeffrey Rosen, "Second Opinions," New Republic, May 4, 2012.
117 Powell, a Richmond lawyer
Jim Hoggan, "40th Anniversary of the Lewis Powell Memo Launching Corporate Propaganda Infrastructure," Des...o...b..og, August 23, 2011, http://www.des...o...b..og.com/40th-anniversary-lewis-powell-memo-launching-corporate-propaganda-infrastructure; John Jeffries, Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr.: A Biography (New York: Fordham University Press, 2001), p. 4.
118 state legislatures, and the judiciary in order to tilt
Lewis F. Powell, "The Powell Memo," August 23, 1971, http://reclaimdemocracy.org/powell_memo_lewis/.
119 "corporate speech," which he found to be protected by the First Amendment
Jeffrey Clements, "The Real History of 'Corporate Personhood': Meet the Man to Blame for Corporations Having More Rights Than You," AlterNet, December 6, 2011.
120 that the law violated the free speech of "corporate persons"
Ibid.
121 have revenues larger than many of the world's nation-states
Vincent Trivett, "25 US Mega Corporations: Where They Rank If They Were Countries," Business Insider, June 27, 2011, http://www.businessinsider.com/25-corporations-bigger-tan-countries-2011-6?op=1.