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Books in Brief.(Review)(Brief Article)
Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform, by Bradley A. Smith (Princeton, 286 pp., $26.95)
Sen. Dick Durbin called Bradley Smith a "nihilist." Commentators compared him to David Duke and the Unabomber. And then-Vice President Al Gore opposed his boss's nomination of Smith to the Federal Election Commission because "the last thing we need is an FEC commissioner who publicly questions not only the constitutionality of proposed [campaign-finance] reforms, but also the constitutionality of current limitations."
But question he does. Smith passed the Senate's grilling and today serves as one of six FEC commissioners. In Unfree Speech, he argues that "almost everything the American people know, or think they know, about campaign finance is wrong."
Smith debunks many common assumptions. Money buys elections? Then why in 1994, in the "conservative revolution" that saw the highest congressional turnover ...
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- Magazine article from: Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy Gora, Joel M. June 22, 2001 700+ words
...provisions of the federal campaign finance laws because of First...the modern clash between campaign finance controls and First Amendment rights. In Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform, Professor Bradley...
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- Magazine article from: The American Prospect DENISON, DAVE September 24, 2001 700+ words
...Speeeh: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform By Bradley...THAT THE DEBATE over campaign finance reform as played...Bradley A. Smith's Unfree Speech this spring, conservatives...the case against campaign finance regulation. With...
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- Magazine article from: Booklist Carroll, Mary March 15, 2001 700+ words
Smith, Bradley A. Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform. Mar. 2001...Republicans in opposing current campaign finance reform legislation. His...consequences) of previous campaign finance regulation, discusses...
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- Magazine article from: National Journal CARNEY, ELIZA NEWLIN June 9, 2001 700+ words
Lucky Princeton University Press. Its Unfree Speech hit the streets just a few days before the Senate took up and approved a campaign finance law that was the handiwork of John McCain, R-Ariz., and Russell Feingold, D-Wis. And the battle...
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- Magazine article from: Publishers Weekly February 26, 2001 700+ words
...know, or think they know, about campaign finance reform is wrong," and he proceeds...reformers must add another reform, until campaign finance regulation becomes a "mosh pit...were it not, Smith contends, that campaign finance reform is simply unconstitutional...
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- Magazine article from: The American Enterprise Lehrer, Eli April 1, 2003 700+ words
Free speech no longer exists on American college campuses. A comprehensive survey conducted by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) makes it clear: America's great universities are now officially committed to punishing students who express ideas that depart from Leftist
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- Magazine article from: Broadcasting & Cable June 20, 2005 700+ words
...other authors of the 2002 campaign-finance-reform law for speaking...law. Smith's views on campaign-finance limits were well-known...commission. In his book Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform, he argued that...
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- News wire article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) March 19, 2001 700+ words
...of all evil, or that campaign finance reform is the remedy for...the best of all possible campaign finance regimes, or that money...concern. It's called ``Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform.'' Smith asserts...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Eichel, Larry March 19, 2001 700+ words
...of all evil, or that campaign finance reform is the remedy for...the best of all possible campaign finance regimes, or that money...concern. It's called ``Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform.'' Smith asserts...
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