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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... restrict campaign contributions and spending, while the nation's law journals are filled with articles, often sadly divorced from any empirical analysis of campaign giving and spending, that suggest ever more creative ways to regulate ...
... restrictions on political speech and, in fact, would like to see more of it. Meanwhile, pressure is growing for a “final solution” to the problem of First Amendment limits on government power, limits that forced the charges against the ...
... restrictions on campaign finance by passing the Federal Corrupt Practices Act. It is worth pointing out that Teapot Dome had little to do with campaign contributions. Warren Harding, the honest but unfortunate man who ended up presiding ...
... restrictions on direct contributions to candidates, few did so. This was in part because it was doubted that corporations could legally use corporate funds even to establish and administer a PAC. More important, however, was the fact ...
... Restrictions on spending and contributions were required because “radio and television advertising eat up millions.”30 As we have seen, previous efforts to limit contributions and spending, or even to require disclosure of contributions ...
Inhalt
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CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS | 107 |
REAL AND IMAGINED REFORM OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE | 167 |
Notes | 229 |
Bibliography | 259 |
Index | 279 |