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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... campaign contributions and spending, while the nation's law journals are filled with articles, often sadly divorced from any empirical analysis of campaign giving and spending, that suggest ever more creative ways to regulate political ...
... campaign contributions seem to have remarkably little effect on legislative behavior. And far from empowering ordinary citizens and political outsiders, campaign finance regulations have struck hardest at grassroots political ...
... political speech and political spending. For the government's hook in its effort to quiet the National Committee for Impeachment was not the committee's actual speech but its expenditure of money to advertise that speech. The government ...
... speech might not be permitted in a candidate election—a position explicitly ... political sites critical of Republicans. He felt that he had done his part ... speech have greater constitutional protection than the speech of someone such ...
The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform Samantha Sellinger. the First Amendment, than to internet political speech.4 Can this be how the nation's founders intended the First Amendment to be applied? For nearly twenty years prior to 1996 ...
Contents
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CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS | 107 |
REAL AND IMAGINED REFORM OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE | 167 |
Notes | 229 |
Bibliography | 259 |
Index | 279 |