Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance ReformAt 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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... disclosure, in House races, of each contributor of $100 or more (equal to about $1,667 in 2000), and of each recipient of $10 or more. Amendments passed the very next year required disclosures to be made at least ten days before the ...
... Disclosure and spending limits could be avoided by party spending through state and district committees. Second, many observers interpreted the spending limits to apply only to the candidate, not to committees operating without the ...
... disclosure under the Publicity Act, which only required disclosure of contributions made in an election year.19 Although this pointed up the simple need to require disclosure of all campaign contributions, regardless of when made, the ...
... disclosure of contributions, had been largely evaded through the exploitation of what would today be called “loopholes,” so that reform had done little but rechannel contributions and spending. Thus, a push began for legislation that ...
... disclosure requirements, eliminating most of the old loopholes in the law. Penalties were put in place for failure to make proper disclosures. Operating on the theory that disclosure would eliminate political quid pro quos, the act ...
Contents
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CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS | 107 |
REAL AND IMAGINED REFORM OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE | 167 |
Notes | 229 |
Bibliography | 259 |
Index | 279 |