Citizens divided : campaign finance reform and the constitution /

First Amendment defenders greeted the Citizens United ruling with enthusiasm, while electoral reformers recoiled in disbelief. Robert Post offers a constitutional theory that seeks to reconcile these sharply divided camps, and explains how the case might've been decided in a way that would pres...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Post, Robert, 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Series:Tanner lectures on human values (Cambridge, Mass.)
Subjects:
Campaign funds > Law and legislation > United States.
Law reform > United States.
Constitutional law > United States.
Election law > United States.
Elections > United States.
Droit > Réforme > États-Unis.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > American Government > General.
Campaign funds > Law and legislation.
Constitutional law.
Election law.
Elections.
Law reform.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • First lecture : a short history of representation and discursive democracy
  • Second lecture : campaign finance reform and the First Amendment
  • Out-posting post / Lawrence Lessig
  • Legitimacy, strict scrutiny, and the case against the Supreme Court / Frank Michelman
  • Free speech as the citizen's right / Nadia Urbinati
  • Citizens deflected : electoral integrity and political reform / Pamela S. Karlan
  • Representative democracy / Robert C. Post.

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