The Constitution and Campaign Reform: Hearings Before the Committee on Rules and Administration, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Second Session, on Constitutional Issues Impacting Campaign Reform, March 22, March 29, April 5, April 12, April 26, May 3, and May 17, 2000 |
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... effect of large soft - money contributions while needlessly fueling the amount of money in the system . While I would not categorically rule out in- creasing the individual contribution limits , such an increase in my view must be ...
... effect of large soft - money contributions while needlessly fueling the amount of money in the system . While I would not categorically rule out in- creasing the individual contribution limits , such an increase in my view must be ...
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... effect , prohibited expenditures for such issue ads . They were not called that then , but that is what they were . The law limited and restricted such issue ads that denigrated or praised candidates because they might affect the ...
... effect , prohibited expenditures for such issue ads . They were not called that then , but that is what they were . The law limited and restricted such issue ads that denigrated or praised candidates because they might affect the ...
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... in fact , they have all increased . The truth is that campaign finance laws have no de- monstrable effect on the amount of campaign spending . The Source of the Problem and Its Remedy The major cost of election campaigns is the cost of 12.
... in fact , they have all increased . The truth is that campaign finance laws have no de- monstrable effect on the amount of campaign spending . The Source of the Problem and Its Remedy The major cost of election campaigns is the cost of 12.
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... effect on the election , but you had two choices . You could restrict it all and face the dreadful consequences that Ira was talking about , or you could try to have a tight standard , a standard of express advocacy , a standard which ...
... effect on the election , but you had two choices . You could restrict it all and face the dreadful consequences that Ira was talking about , or you could try to have a tight standard , a standard of express advocacy , a standard which ...
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... effect , " issue advocacy , ' and its funding was rendered totally immune from any government controls . That's how constitutionally protected " soft money " was born . Campaign finance reformers complain that these rules are all ...
... effect , " issue advocacy , ' and its funding was rendered totally immune from any government controls . That's how constitutionally protected " soft money " was born . Campaign finance reformers complain that these rules are all ...
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Page 670 - Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties; and that in its government the deliberative forces should prevail over the arbitrary. They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Page 637 - The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right ; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Page 276 - Thus we consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.
Page 408 - ... 3. By discrimination in regard to hire or tenure of employment or any term or condition of employment to encourage or discourage membership in any labor organization : Provided, That nothing in this Act, or in any other statute of the United States, shall preclude an employer from making an agreement with a labor organization (not established, maintained, or assisted by any action defined in this Act as an unfair labor practice) to require as a condition of employment membership therein...
Page 409 - ... reasonable grounds for believing that such membership was not available to the employee on the same terms and conditions generally applicable to other members, or (B) if he has reasonable grounds for believing that membership was denied or terminated for reasons other than the failure of the employee to tender the periodic dues and the initiation fees uniformly required as a condition of acquiring or retaining membership...
Page 672 - By a faction I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community. There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects.
Page 17 - But the concept that government may restrict the speech of some elements of our society in order to enhance the relative voice of others is wholly foreign to the First Amendment.
Page 297 - There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: The one, by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence; the other, by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests.
Page 672 - Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
Page 17 - A restriction on the amount of money a person or group can spend on political communication during a campaign necessarily reduces the quantity of expression by restricting the number of issues discussed, the depth of their exploration, and the size of the audience reached.