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The Link Between Student Activity Fees And Campaign Finance Regulations, Leslie Gielow Jacobs
The Link Between Student Activity Fees And Campaign Finance Regulations, Leslie Gielow Jacobs
Leslie Gielow Jacobs
No abstract provided.
Speech And The Truth-Seeking Value, Brian C. Murchison
Speech And The Truth-Seeking Value, Brian C. Murchison
Brian C. Murchison
Courts in First Amendment cases long have invoked the truth-seeking value of speech, but they rarely probe its meaning or significance, and some ignore it altogether. As new cases implicate questions of truth and falsity, thorough assessment of the value is needed. This Article fills the gap by making three claims. First, interest in truth-seeking has resurfaced in journalism, politics, philosophy, and fiction, converging on a concept of provisional or “functional” truth. Second, the appeal of functional truth for the law may be that it clarifies thinking about a range of human priorities—survival, progress, and character—without insisting on truth in …
Voluntary Campaign Finance Reform, John C. Nagle
Voluntary Campaign Finance Reform, John C. Nagle
John Copeland Nagle
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Corporate First Amendment Rights After Citizens United: An Analysis Of The Popular Movement To End The Constitutional Personhood Of Corporations, Susanna K. Ripken
Corporate First Amendment Rights After Citizens United: An Analysis Of The Popular Movement To End The Constitutional Personhood Of Corporations, Susanna K. Ripken
Susanna K. Ripken
No case in the Supreme Court’s last term was more controversial than Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (Citizens United). In a sharply divided 5:4 decision, the Court invalidated strict federal campaign finance laws and upheld the First Amendment right of corporations to spend unlimited sums of corporate money to support or oppose candidates in political elections. Although mainstream criticism of Citizens United was fierce and widely publicized, a lesser known response to the case is a grassroots popular movement calling for an amendment to the Constitution establishing that money is not speech and that human beings, not corporations, are …