ABOUT IMPROPER FOREIGN INFLUENCE IN THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM

ABOUT IMPROPER FOREIGN INFLUENCE IN THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM

Author: Michael Sozan, senior fellow on the Center for American Progress’ Democracy and Government Reform team.

The founders of the U.S. Constitution were intent on ensuring that foreign entities did not influence America’s democratic system. They knew that foreign involvement in U.S. elections or policymaking posed an enormous threat to national sovereignty and that a president who would invite foreign interference for his own political benefit would be subject to impeachment.

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