As Abraham Lincoln said:

     "The money power preys upon the nation in times of peace and 
     conspires against it in times of adversity.  It is more despotic 
     than monarchy.  More insolent than autocracy.  More selfish 
     than bureaucracy.  I see in the near future, a crisis approaching 
     that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my 
     country.  Corporations have been enthroned.  An era of 
     corruption will follow and the money power of the country will 
     endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of 
     the people, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and 
     the republic is destroyed."

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     and much earlier than Abe, we read

     "But the good men did not remain good; they began to make a
     profit out of that which was the common property of all."

      - Aristotle

     writing on constitutional democracy in "The Politics"
     Bk. III Ch. 15

     further on, he added

     "Where laws do not rule, there is no constitution"

     Bk. IV, Ch. 4

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