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Money and Free Speech: Campaign Finance Reform and the Courts
Melvin I. Urofsky
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Hardcover. Takes a look at efforts to rein in campaign spending and counter efforts in the courts to preserve the status quo. The author reveals how both Congress and the courts have navigated uneasily between the Scylla of corruption and the Charybdis of suppressing political speech. This book is a guide to the controversies emerging from the facts. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPVL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 644.
Money greases the wheels of American politics from the local level to the White House. In the 2004 presidential campaign, President George W. Bush alone raised nearly $400 million in private and public funds - nearly twenty times the combined total raised by John Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960 - to defeat challenger John F. Kerry, further fueling anxiety over the power of money to dictate political results. Melvin Urofsky, one of our nation's most respected legal historians, takes a fresh look at efforts to rein in campaign spending and counter efforts in the courts to preserve the status ... Read more
Money greases the wheels of American politics from the local level to the White House. In the 2004 presidential campaign, President George W. Bush alone raised nearly $400 million in private and public funds - nearly twenty times the combined total raised by John Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960 - to defeat challenger John F. Kerry, further fueling anxiety over the power of money to dictate political results. Melvin Urofsky, one of our nation's most respected legal historians, takes a fresh look at efforts to rein in campaign spending and counter efforts in the courts to preserve the status ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700614035
SKU
V9780700614035
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About Melvin I. Urofsky
Melvin I. Urofsky is professor emeritus of history and professor of law and public policy at Virginia Commonwealth University. His many books include A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United States and The Continuity of Change: The Supreme Court and Individual Liberties, 1953-1986.
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