Footnoted, Stevens’ dissent in Citizens United, Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Tom Logan (Nov. 12, 1816), in The Works of Thomas Jefferson 42, 44 (P. Ford ed. 1905):

“I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country”


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