The central theme of the presidential campaign of self-described “democratic socialist” Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is a scathing denunciation of what he considers the outrageous influence of money in politics: “This great nation and its government belong to all of the people, and not to a handful of billionaires”. His opponents, even those on the opposite end of the political spectrum, are generally not bold or foolish enough to bluntly contradict him and declare, as the Founding Fathers sometimes did, that “those who own the country ought to govern it”. What is the Torah's view of the matter? Does it accept the modern principle of “one man, one vote”, or does it accept the concerns of the Father of the Constitution that “[I]f elections were open to all classes of people, the property of the landed proprietors would be insecure … Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests”?
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