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Free Speech at Last: McCutcheon Decision Just Right

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Author(s) Bradley A. Smith
Source National Review
Date April 2, 2014
URL http://www.nationalreview.com/article/374894/free-speech-last-mccutcheon-decision-just-right-bradley-smith
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Ultimately, this decision is a significant victory for the First Amendment. Perhaps more important than the immediate result is the insistence that the government must have an actual, rather than conjectural, theory of corruption to be prevented. The “monsters under the bed” theory of constitutional jurisprudence seems headed for the dustbin.


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This item argues for the position Supreme Court voted correctly on the topic McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission.