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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... majority bent on abrogating a minority's right to life, liberty, or property. The founders designed the U.S. Constitution to protect that general interest against that threat. But they did not look to government to impose a substantive ...
... majority in the legislature. Such regulation is more often about politics than about principle, a truth that holds for citizens as well as po- litical activists. Americans are far more likely to support restrictions on campaign finance ...
... majority will be tempted to pass such regulations . As Bradley Smith , a former chair of the Federal Election Commission , has said , “ One of the problems with campaign finance laws is that they are not nonpar- tisan , good government ...
... majority faction posed the problem of interest most acutely because a majority is the power in a popular government.3 36 How should we deal with the problem of interest in a government ruled by the people ? Madison dismissed out of hand ...
... majority of the whole , ” an interest inimical to the peace and rights of a minority . The older claims of a common good con- travened the nature of human beings . Madison denied that citizens could have “ the same opinions , the same ...
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