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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... limits on spending seem to destroy electoral competition. Far from corrupting the legislature, campaign contributions seem to have remarkably little effect on legislative behavior. And far from empowering ordinary citizens and political ...
... limits, the gold standard, and that most passionate of political issues, interleague baseball play. In September 1998, the Federal Election Commission instituted an action against Forbes, Inc., the publisher of Forbes. The FEC ...
... limits on government power, limits that forced the charges against the National Committee for Impeachment, CLITRIM, and Margaret McIntyre to be dismissed. In 1997, thirty-eight U.S. senators voted for a constitutional amendment that ...
... limits could be avoided by party spending through state and district committees. Second, many observers interpreted the spending limits to apply only to the candidate, not to committees operating without the candidate's involvement ...
... limits, which were in any event substantially out of date with the rise of radio advertising, were ignored by establishing numerous committees, each of which could spend up to the limit. National parties could avoid disclosure by ...
Inhalt
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CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS | 107 |
REAL AND IMAGINED REFORM OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE | 167 |
Notes | 229 |
Bibliography | 259 |
Index | 279 |