A campaign funding mess (Greenfield | Boston Globe)

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By Kent Greenfield
January 23, 2010

... real change would have to come at the federal level. Congress could simply say that as a condition of being listed on a national securities exchange, corporations would have to be chartered at the federal level. And federally chartered corporations would be limited to doing what corporations are intended to do: create wealth by producing products and services and prohibited from trying to skew the democratic process.

That way, corporations would stay where they belong, in the marketplace. The “marketplace of ideas’’ will be left to the rest of us.

Kent Greenfield is a professor of constitutional law and corporate law at Boston College Law School

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/01/23/a_campaign_funding_mess/