Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance ReformPrinceton University Press, 09.02.2009 - 320 Seiten At a time when campaign finance reform is widely viewed as synonymous with cleaning up Washington and promoting political equality, Bradley Smith, a nationally recognized expert on campaign finance reform, argues that all restriction on campaign giving should be eliminated. In Unfree Speech, he presents a bold, convincing argument for the repeal of laws that regulate political spending and contributions, contending that they violate the right to free speech and ultimately diminish citizens' power. |
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... amount, really—that made the speech of the National Committee for Impeachment potentially persuasive to voters, and that served as the foundation for the government's claimed authority to regulate that speech. In the summer of 1976 ...
... amounts in presidential campaigns. Other prominent Democrats in the postwar era included the party's 1876 presidential candidate, Samuel Tilden, and streetcar operator William Whitney. Tilden, a wealthy and incorruptible New York lawyer ...
... amounts based on their ability to pay and perceived stake in the general prosperity. Scrupulously honest, Hanna saw his ... amount would not be reached again, even in nominal dollars, until 1936.11 Corporate funding remained vital to the ...
... amount that could be spent in Senate races to $10,000, and in House races to $5,000 (amounts equal to approximately $170,000 and $85,000 in 2000). Senator James 24 CHAPTER 2.
... amounts in small contributions. The oil leases at the heart of the scandal itself involved straightforward kickbacks—not campaign contributions—made to Interior Secretary Albert Fall, who was convicted under traditional bribery statutes ...
Inhalt
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CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS | 107 |
REAL AND IMAGINED REFORM OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE | 167 |
Notes | 229 |
Bibliography | 259 |
Index | 279 |