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The Hoover Institution gratefully acknowledges generous support from TAD AND DIANNE TAUBE TAUBE FAMILY FOUNDATION KORET FOUNDATION Founders of the Program on American Instituions and Economic Performance and Cornerstone gifts from SARAH SCAIFE FOUNDATION |
Contents |
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| ix | About the Contributors | |
| xiii | Introduction Annelise Anderson | |
PART ONE: ARTICLES | ||
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If It's Not Broken . . . or Is It? Frank J. Sorauf | |
| 36 | Campaign Finance Regulation: Faulty Assumptions and Undemocratic Consequences Bradley A. Smith | |
| 73 | PACs and Parties Larry J. Sabato | |
| 94 | Liberty of the Press under Socialism Williamson M. Evers | |
| 104 | Why Congress Can't Ban Soft Money David M. Mason | |
| 118 | Campaign Finance Reforms and the Presidential Campaign Contributions of Wealthy Capitalist Families Michael Patrick Allen and Phillip Broyles | |
| 135 | Where Are We Now? The Current State of Campaign Finance Law Trevor Potter | |
| 171 | Political Money: The New Prohibition Annelise Anderson | |
PART TWO: SUPREME COURT OPINIONS | ||
| 189 | Partial Dissent/Partial Concurrence of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thomas in the Case of the Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee and Douglas Jones, Treasurer, Petitioner v. Federal Election Commission Clarence Thomas | |
| 194 | Partial Dissent/Partial Concurrence of Chief Justice Burger in the Case of Buckley v. Valeo Warren Burger | |
| 211 | Supreme Court Reconsiders Contribution Limits Dan Manatt | |
PART THREE: REGULATION AND PROPOSED LEGISLATION | ||
| 221 | Attempt to Amend the Constitution 105th Congress | |
| 224 | FEC Announces 1996 Presidential Spending Limits, March 15, 1996 Federal Election Commission | |
| 228 | The Doolittle Bill: Citizen Legislature and Political Freedom Act 105th Congress | |
| 234 | S. 25: Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act John McCain and Russell Feingold | |
PART FOUR: POINTS OF VIEW | ||
| 241 | Enemies of the First Amendment Bobby R. Burchfield | |
| 248 | The Money Chase Tom Bethell | |
| 254 | Campaign Finance Restrictions Violate the Constitution Floyd Abrams | |
| 258 | The King's Protection Meg Greenfield | |
| 261 | Making Pols into Crooks Robert J. Samuelson | |
| 265 | Shut Up, They Explained David Frum | |
| 269 | Campaign Solution: Lift All Contribution Limits George F. Will | |
| 272 | Let the Sun Shine In Charles Krauthammer | |
| 275 | Campaign Finance Reforms Don't Work Dane Strother | |
| 278 | Price Controls on Democracy Pete du Pont | |
| 283 | The Case for Campaign Reform New York Times Editorial | |
| 286 | The Man Who Ruined Politics Wall Street Journal Editorial | |
| 290 | Sin Masquerading as Virtue Steve Forbes | |
| 292 | Deregulating Politics George F. Will | |
| 296 | Vote against McCain. Wait, Can I Say That? Jonathan Rauch | |
| 300 | Deregulating Campaign Finance: Solution or Chimera? Thomas E. Mann | |
| 305 | Campaigns Starved for Money Martin Anderson | |
| 307 | The Case for Campaign Finance Reform John Doolittle | |
| 311 | The Money Gag Mitch McConnell | |
| 316 | Representative Democracy versus Corporate Democracy: How Soft Money Erodes the Principle of "One Person, One Vote" Russell D. Feingold | |
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The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, founded at Stanford University in 1919 by Herbert Hoover, who went on to become the thirty-first president of the United States, is an interdisciplinary research center for advanced study on domestic and international affairs. The views expressed in its publications are entirely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the staff, officers, or Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution. Hoover Institution Press Publication No. 459 Copyright © 2000 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission of the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Political money : deregulating American politics, selected writings on campaign finance reform / edited by Annelise Anderson. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8179-9672-9 (alk. paper) | ||