For example:
"England exhibits the most remarkable phaenomenon in the universe in the contrast between the profligacy of it’s government and the probity of it’s citizens. and accordingly it is now exhibiting an example of the truth of the maxim that virtue & interest are inseparable. it ends, as might have been expected, in the ruin of it’s people. but this ruin will fall heaviest, as it ought to fall, on that hereditary aristocracy which has for generations been preparing the catastrophe. I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and to bid defiance to the laws of their country." https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-10-02-0390
Also: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/thomas-jefferson-feared-aristocracy-corporations
More: “I hope that 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.”
― Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817
Thomas Jefferson saw this danger over two hundred years ago, but we still have not been able to slow down the rape of our country by corporations. All that has been accomplished is for the corporations to grab more power. Unfortunately, the correction will probably be a very violent one, as money doesn't give up power willingly.
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