Low grade.

• Author: Morrison, Alan B.
• Position: Letters

Paul Weinstein's effort to find a way to raise the money for public financing of congressional elections gets an "A" for effort, but an "F" for constitutional law ("You Break It, You Pay For It," November). His proposal to make lobbyists pay for public financing is, in effect, a proposal to tax the constitutional right to petition the government for redress of grievances, and I have no doubt that the Supreme Court would strike such a idea down in a flash, assuming it ever got that far. I should also point out that not all lobbyists are fat cats who use their money and influence to buy...