Год выпуска: 0 Автор: Joshua Rosenkranz, Century Foundation Working Group on Campaign Finance Litigation, E. Joshua Rosenkranz, the Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Издательство: Страниц: 0 ISBN: 0870784196
Описание
Money talks, but should all limits on campaign expenditures be viewed as in violation of the First Amendment? Yes--according to the Supreme Court in Buckley v. Valeo, a 1976 decision that has dealt death blows to reform efforts in states and cities across the country. More than political resistance or public apathy, Buckley is emerging as the real obstacle to meaningful reform of what everyone now recognizes is an unacceptable way of financing elections. But a group of some of the nation's leadinglitigators, law professors, and reform advocates, assembled by the Twentieth Century Fund/Century Foundation, says we don't have to live with this ruling forever. Buckley Stops Here reflects the deliberations and recommendations of the Twentieth Century Fund/Century Foundation Working Group on Campaign Finance Litigation. It describes how a system that leaves campaign spending virtually unfettered can corrupt politicians, undermine public confidence in government, deny...
