The Fallacy of Campaign Finance ReformAt first glance, campaign finance reform looks like a good idea. McCain-Feingold, for instance, regulates campaigns by prohibiting national political parties from accepting soft money contributions from corporations, labor unions, and wealthy individuals. But are such measures, or any of the numerous and similarly restrictive proposals that have circulated through Washington in recent years, really good for our democracy? |
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... Constitution. Most people are wrong. You are reading these words right now because of money. The Univer- sity of Chicago Press has spent tens of thousands of dollars producing this book. If the government restricted that spending, my ...
... constitutional pitfalls. (John McCain)15 Increasing Political Equality It will cleanse our politics and make it possible for the voices of ordinary Amer- icans to be heard. (Jean Carnahan)16 [It is the first step to] getting big money ...
... Constitution and the Dec- laration of Independence and make up what might be called the Madiso- nian vision of politics. Those ideals may be summed up as natural rights, individual liberty, and limited government. The senators who ...
... Constitution to protect that general interest against that threat. But they did not look to government to impose a substantive notion of the general interest by suppressing particular interests. Instead, Madison and others proposed a ...
John Samples. PART I The Conflict of Ideals CHAPTER ONE The Madisonian Vision of Politics Politics U.S. constitution Part I: The Conflict of Ideals.
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