The Fallacy of Campaign Finance ReformUniversity of Chicago Press, 2008 M09 15 - 328 páginas At first glance, campaign finance reform looks like a good idea. McCain-Feingold, for instance, regulates campaigns by prohibiting national political parties from accepting soft money contributions from corporations, labor unions, and wealthy individuals. But are such measures, or any of the numerous and similarly restrictive proposals that have circulated through Washington in recent years, really good for our democracy? |
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... liberty and libertarian policies to other citizens. Money talks in many ways in elections as well as in writing about public policy.4 Many people would rather not listen. Some Americans would have been happier if this book had never ...
... liberty, and limited government. The senators who opposed McCain-Feingold did so in defense of freedom of speech. They favored, in other words, limits on the government's power to regulate political ac- tivity, limits enshrined in the ...
... liberty and hence with natural rights recognized by an empowered and limited government. The greatest threat to that general interest is a predatory majority bent on abrogating a minority's right to life, liberty, or property. The ...
... that the freedom to speak and to struggle supports individual liberty and limited government. The chapters that follow give the reasons for my doubts and for my faith. PART I The Conflict of Ideals CHAPTER ONE The Madisonian 14 ...
... liberty, and prop- erty of citizens. For Locke, natural rights form a higher law that informs and constrains all law ... liberty and their doubts about money in politics. Insofar as their founding ideals still inform contem- porary ...
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