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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... . Although the book draws on a variety of recent and current examples to make its points, it is not intended to be anecdotal or “current” in the sense of being a book about the 2000 presidential campaign, or campaign xi PREFACE.
The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform Samantha Sellinger. being a book about the 2000 presidential campaign, or campaign finance regulation in the 1990s. Its tales are intended to make points that are relatively timeless. At the advice of ...
... presidential election, and the committee had not properly registered with the government to engage in such political activity. United States v. National Committee for Impeachment was the first enforcement action ever brought under the ...
... presidential candidate. But doesn't a $17,850 newspaper ad urging not the defeat but the impeachment of his opponent pose the same “threat of corruption?” On April 27, 1988, Margaret McIntyre and two others stood outside of Blendon ...
... presidential campaign at $94,900, and argued that by publishing the columns, Forbes, Inc. had violated the legal prohibition on corporate contributions to candidates. Oddly, Steve Forbes had already spent some $28 million of his ...
Contents
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CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS | 107 |
REAL AND IMAGINED REFORM OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE | 167 |
Notes | 229 |
Bibliography | 259 |
Index | 279 |