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The Law, Imagery And Televised Campaign Advertising: A Legal Analysis Of The Constitutionality Of Restricting External Imagery In Televised Campaign Advertising For Federal Office, Les J. Gwartney

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The possible effects of external imagery in televised political campaign advertising upon our electoral system, coupled with the current public interest in this area, could lead to a call for legislation restricting televised political advertisements to a "talking head" format. This study found that a statute regulating televised political campaign advertisements in this manner would violate the first amendment to the United States Constitution. The regulation of external imagery would not be a valid time, place and manner restriction because external imagery is compatible with messages on the television medium and the regulation of external imagery would not be content-neutral. …