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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... natural rights, individual liberty, and limited government. The senators who opposed McCain-Feingold did so in defense of freedom of speech. They favored, in other words, limits on the government's power to regulate political ac- tivity ...
... natural rights recognized by an empowered and limited government. The greatest threat to that general interest is a predatory majority bent on abrogating a minority's right to life, liberty, or property. The founders designed the U.S. ...
... natural rights; at the same time, those rights constrained what government could do to the life, liberty, and prop- erty of citizens. For Locke, natural rights form a higher law that informs and constrains all law, including the ...
... Natural. Rights. and. Limited. Government. Political philosophers have long looked to nature to provide standards and ideals for political life. Aristotle believed that nature was teleological; everything in it tended toward a goal. Humans ...
... rights against state power.7 The Hobbesian social contract was not subject ... natural man comes to the table to negotiate the social contract with more in ... natural rights that exist prior to the state. Lockean individuals create ...
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Compound Democracies: Why the United States and Europe Are Becoming Similar Sergio Fabbrini No preview available - 2007 |
Small Change: Money, Political Parties, and Campaign Finance Reform Raymond J. La Raja Limited preview - 2008 |