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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... million of his personal fortune, largely made through Forbes, Inc., on his campaign. As a candidate, the FEC argued, Forbes lost the right to speak to the public through his magazine columns, unless his campaign paid Forbes to publish ...
... million in 2000 dollars.6 During both the antebellum and post–Civil War eras, a primary source of party funds was the practice of assessments on officeholders. With virtually all government jobs allotted on the basis of the “spoils ...
... million in 2000 dollars—to Benjamin Harrison's presidential campaign, marked the full-scale development of a second new source of campaign cash: corporations. The Republicans were particularly aggressive in soliciting corporate cash ...
... million in 2000 dollars and far more than is normally spent on such a race today. However, the latter candidate ... million (equivalent to approximately $145 million in 1999) to support McKinley's campaign. This amount would not be ...
... million. In the years that followed, however, the contribution limits were avoided by having amounts over $5,000 be paid to state and local committees. Spending limits were avoided through the simple expedient of establishing a variety ...
Contents
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CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS | 107 |
REAL AND IMAGINED REFORM OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE | 167 |
Notes | 229 |
Bibliography | 259 |
Index | 279 |