Politics and Public Policy in the United States

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 20.03.06

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale and Objectives
  3. Background Knowledge
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Resources
  7. Appendix on Implementing District Standards
  8. Endnotes

Money Talks: First Amendment Freedom of Speech and Campaign Finance

Hunter Najera

Published September 2020

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Endnotes

1 Citizens United v. F.E.C., 558 U.S. 310 (2010).

2 Mayer, Jane. Dark Money: the Hidden History of the Billionaires behind the Rise of the Radical Right (New York: Doubleday, 2017: 15).

3 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (1946).

4 18 U.S.C. § 1952 (1961).

5 Graetz, Michael J., and Linda Greenhouse. The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right (New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2017: 256).

6 52 U.S.C. § 30101 (1972)

7 Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976).

8 Cantor, Joseph E., Campaign Finance: An Overview (Washington, D.C.: Library of   Congress, Congressional Research Service, 2007: 4).

9 Buckley, 424 U.S. at n. 18

10 First Nat’l Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, 435 U.S. 765 (1978).

11 Graetz and Geenhouse, 263

12. Citizens United v. F.E.C., 558 U.S. 310

13 Graetz and Greenhouse, 266

14 SpeechNow.Org v. Federal Com'n, 599 F.3d 686 (D.C. Cir. 2010).

15 SpeechNow.Org, 599 F.3d at background.

16 McCutcheon v. F.E.C., 572 US 185 (2014)

17 Ackerman, Bruce A., and Ian Ayres. Voting with Dollars: A New Paradigm for Campaign Finance (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004).

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