"Our system of government is an oligarchy inside a democracy. The system is built on an unspoken bargain:
The rise of representative democracy involved a difficult and delicately executed trade-off of property security for the richest and historically most powerful actors in exchange for universal suffrage for the unpropertied masses.
Oligarchy in the United States?, 7 Perspectives on Politics 731 (2009) by Jeffrey A. Winters and Benjamin I. Page (abstract here, entire paper available from your library, and worth the time it takes to download and read.) Winters and Page point to several provisions of the Constitution that protect the economic power of oligarchs, and to the courts that enforce that protection"..........READ MORE
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