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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... relatively timeless. At the advice of my first editor at Princeton University Press, Malcolm Litchfield, I have tried to limit the number of footnotes, removing nonessential and repetitive notes as well as citations to information that ...
... relatively old; it dates back to the first wave of campaign laws passed in the United States in the early part of this century. The law was rarely enforced until the 1970s, however, when Watergate helped to foster an explosion of both ...
... relatively recent phenomenon, even though the concerns that have led to such regulation have a long pedigree in American political life. Early Days In the colonial period and the early years of the Republic, campaign finance was not an ...
... relatively homogenous group of propertied white men.1 For example, in George Washington's first bid for the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1757, there were only 391 eligible voters; all owned real property, all were male, all were white ...
... relatively genteel system of upper-class politics began to change in the late 1820s, particularly after the campaign of 1828, in which Martin Van Buren organized the first popular mass campaign around Andrew Jackson. By this time, the ...
Inhalt
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CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS | 107 |
REAL AND IMAGINED REFORM OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE | 167 |
Notes | 229 |
Bibliography | 259 |
Index | 279 |