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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... donors were not entirely new, of course; in the antebellum era, the Democrats countered wealthy Whig supporters such as Thurlow Weed with their own donors, such as banker Augustus Belmont. In 1852, Belmontestablished the first national ...
... donors, but had just enough success to make clear that although small donations could augment campaign funds, on the whole small donors alone would not contribute enough to run an effective national campaign. By 1928, both major parties ...
... donors. Large contributions continued to dominate campaign funding, however, as in 1968, when insurance executive Clement Stone and his wife contributed $2.8 million to Richard Nixon's successful presidential campaign.28 Throughout this ...
... donors would be prohibited from spending more than $1,000 in any election cycle “relative to a clearly identified candidate.” All of these limits would also apply to candidates spending money on behalf of their own candidacy.34 However ...
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Inhalt
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CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS | 107 |
REAL AND IMAGINED REFORM OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE | 167 |
Notes | 229 |
Bibliography | 259 |
Index | 279 |