Lawrence Lessig Talks Money in Politics on The Daily Show

Harvard ethics professor and Rootstrikers’ founder Lawrence Lessig was on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night. Rootstrikers is an organization that shares our goal of ending the domination of Big Money over the political process and which joined forces with United Republic in November of this year.

Lessig and Stewart first talked about how campaign financing, with only 0.05 percent of the electorate contributing the most to campaigns, corrupts Congress:

In an extended interview, Lessig explained some of the potential solutions to the problem: transparency, changes to funding, and a Constitutional amendment:

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