Event
Buckley v. Valeo
U.S. Supreme Court case of 30 January 1976 on the 1974 campaign finance law.
- Dates
- 30 Jan 1976
Connections 4
involved
- U.S. Supreme Court upheld contribution limits and struck down spending limits Primary record 12
- Federal Election Commission party Primary record 2
appears in
- Campaign Finance Regulation: Faulty Assumptions and Undemocratic Consequences Scholarship & press 1
- Why Is There So Little Money in U.S. Politics? Scholarship & press 3
Timeline 1 date
- 30 Jan 1976 Buckley v. Valeo
Proof 3 sources
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Campaign Finance Regulation: Faulty Assumptions and Undemocratic Consequences (Cato Policy Analysis no. 238, reprinted by the Hoover Institution), Hoover Institution Press, reprinting the Cato Institute.
Scholarship & press
Citing the government interest in preventing the “appearance of corruption,” the Court upheld restrictions on the size of campaign contributions but struck down limits on candidate spending and independent expenditures in support of a candidate.
Rather than continue down the path of greater government regulation, the country would be best served by deregulating the electoral process
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Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976), No. 75-436, argued 10 November 1975, decided 30 January 1976, Supreme Court of the United States (via Cornell Legal Information Institute), 30 Jan 1976.
Primary record
A restriction on the amount of money a person or group can spend on political communication during a campaign necessarily reduces the quantity of expression
the concept that government may restrict the speech of some elements of our society in order to enhance the relative voice of others is wholly foreign to the First Amendment
the Conservative Party of the State of New York, the Mississippi Republican Party, the Libertarian Party
the New York Civil Liberties Union, Inc., the American Conservative Union
FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION
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Why Is There So Little Money in U.S. Politics? (NBER Working Paper 9409), National Bureau of Economic Research, Dec 2002.
Scholarship & press
In 1976, the Supreme Court struck down spending limits as a violation of free speech in Buckley v. Valeo (424 US 1 (1976)).
when one controls for unobserved constituent and legislator effects, there is little relationship between money and legislator votes
individuals, not special interests, are the main source of campaign contributions
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