{"id":546,"date":"2015-07-17T23:07:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T23:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/masteryusgovernment1x6xmaster\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=546"},"modified":"2015-07-17T23:07:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T23:07:51","slug":"video-lawrence-lessig-we-the-people-and-the-republic-we-must-reclaim","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/spokanecc-americangovernment\/chapter\/video-lawrence-lessig-we-the-people-and-the-republic-we-must-reclaim\/","title":{"raw":"Video: Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic We Must Reclaim","rendered":"Video: Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic We Must Reclaim"},"content":{"raw":"There is a corruption at the heart of American politics, caused by the dependence of Congressional candidates on funding from the tiniest percentage of citizens. That's the argument at the core of this blistering talk by legal scholar Lawrence Lessig (below). With rapid-fire visuals, he shows how the funding process weakens the Republic in the most fundamental way and issues a rallying bipartisan cry that will resonate with many in the U.S. and beyond.\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/mw2z9lV3W1g","rendered":"<p>There is a corruption at the heart of American politics, caused by the dependence of Congressional candidates on funding from the tiniest percentage of citizens. That&#8217;s the argument at the core of this blistering talk by legal scholar Lawrence Lessig (below). With rapid-fire visuals, he shows how the funding process weakens the Republic in the most fundamental way and issues a rallying bipartisan cry that will resonate with many in the U.S. and beyond.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"oembed-1\" title=\"We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim | Lawrence Lessig\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mw2z9lV3W1g?feature=oembed&#38;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-546\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">All rights reserved content<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic We Must Reclaim. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Ted Talks. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mw2z9lV3W1g\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/mw2z9lV3W1g<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em>All Rights Reserved<\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: Standard YouTube license<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":923,"menu_order":10,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"copyrighted_video\",\"description\":\"Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic We Must Reclaim\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Ted Talks\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mw2z9lV3W1g\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"arr\",\"license_terms\":\"Standard YouTube license\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-546","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":490,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/spokanecc-americangovernment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/spokanecc-americangovernment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/spokanecc-americangovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/spokanecc-americangovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/spokanecc-americangovernment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/spokanecc-americangovernment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/546\/revisions\/547"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/spokanecc-americangovernment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/490"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/spokanecc-americangovernment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/546\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/spokanecc-americangovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/spokanecc-americangovernment\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/spokanecc-americangovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/spokanecc-americangovernment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}