Add to ORKGRecent studies have demonstrated that massive one-sided spending in opposition to ballot measures has been highly successful in defeating such proposals. Supreme Court decisions have cast serious doubt on the constitutionality of statutes designed to curb this dominating influence by limiting corporate spending in ballot measure campaigns. This Note surveys the theoretical bases for upholding these statutes against first amendment challenge. After considering the view that any infringement on first amendment rights is justified by a compelling state interest, the Note discusses the view that restrictions on corporate political speech entail no infringement of the speaker\u27s first amendment rights. The Note presents a theoretical justifica...
Concern about the role of corporate money in democracy has been a longstanding theme in American pol...
Until it was declared unconstitutional by the Washington Supreme Court in Bare v. Gorton, Section 1...
In the campaign finance realm, we are in the age of the imperial First Amendment. Over the past nine...
Recent studies have demonstrated that massive one-sided spending in opposition to ballot measures ha...
The U.S. Supreme Court held in Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, 494 U.S. 652 (1990), that it ...
Asks whether California’s elected officials should use their authority to propose and ratify an amen...
The decisions sustaining campaign expenditures by corporations and organized groups are libertarian ...
This Note will argue that even if money is not speech for First Amendment purposes, campaign contrib...
It is not clear that the perceived dangers of corporate participation in politics are real dangers, ...
The Supreme Court has repeatedly noted that ballot and election regulations raise difficult question...
Federal, state, and local governments have attempted to prevent abuses that often accompany lavishly...
This paper analyzes the evolution of jurisprudence in cases regulating campaign finance in order to ...
This Note examines the concept of corporate personhood and whether the state-created corporate entit...
In January 2010, the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission overturned Aust...
This Note\u27s thesis is that ballot measure limitations unconstitutionally infringe upon the rights...
Concern about the role of corporate money in democracy has been a longstanding theme in American pol...
Until it was declared unconstitutional by the Washington Supreme Court in Bare v. Gorton, Section 1...
In the campaign finance realm, we are in the age of the imperial First Amendment. Over the past nine...
Recent studies have demonstrated that massive one-sided spending in opposition to ballot measures ha...
The U.S. Supreme Court held in Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, 494 U.S. 652 (1990), that it ...
Asks whether California’s elected officials should use their authority to propose and ratify an amen...
The decisions sustaining campaign expenditures by corporations and organized groups are libertarian ...
This Note will argue that even if money is not speech for First Amendment purposes, campaign contrib...
It is not clear that the perceived dangers of corporate participation in politics are real dangers, ...
The Supreme Court has repeatedly noted that ballot and election regulations raise difficult question...
Federal, state, and local governments have attempted to prevent abuses that often accompany lavishly...
This paper analyzes the evolution of jurisprudence in cases regulating campaign finance in order to ...
This Note examines the concept of corporate personhood and whether the state-created corporate entit...
In January 2010, the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission overturned Aust...
This Note\u27s thesis is that ballot measure limitations unconstitutionally infringe upon the rights...
Concern about the role of corporate money in democracy has been a longstanding theme in American pol...
Until it was declared unconstitutional by the Washington Supreme Court in Bare v. Gorton, Section 1...
In the campaign finance realm, we are in the age of the imperial First Amendment. Over the past nine...