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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... efforts, but this literature has remained largely detached from legislative and constitutional theories that might ... effort to start filling in the gulf between the empirical research of political scientists and economists and the ...
... efforts had the potential to “affect” the 1972 presidential election, and the committee had not properly registered ... effort to quiet the National Committee for Impeachment was not the committee's actual speech but its expenditure of ...
... efforts corrupt, or create the appearance of corrupting, Representative Johnson or her opponent. Unlike Margaret McIntyre, Leo Smith did not pursue his case to the Supreme Court, and if he had, he would probably have lost. Yet why ...
... effort to regulate campaign finance. Indeed, in many respects they barely scratch the surface of the intractable dilemmas that mark efforts to regulate campaign finance. None of the actions of any of these people posed any serious ...
... efforts to regulate them, [you] have oil and gas companies, [you] have trial lawyers, [you] have all the major interests that have an outcome in the election and an outcome in policy being able to pour this money in . . . they want ...
Contents
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CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS | 107 |
REAL AND IMAGINED REFORM OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE | 167 |
Notes | 229 |
Bibliography | 259 |
Index | 279 |