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United States v. Harriss

U.S. Supreme Court case of 7 June 1954 that upheld the 1946 law requiring lobbyists to register and report.

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7 Jun 1954 United States v. Harriss

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United States v. Harriss, 347 U.S. 612 (1954), No. 32, argued 19 October 1953, decided 7 June 1954, Supreme Court of the United States (U.S. Reports, via Library of Congress), 7 Jun 1954. Primary record
Present-day legislative complexities are such that individual members of Congress cannot be expected to explore the myriad pressures to which they are regularly subjected.
the voice of the people may all too easily be drowned out by the voice of special interest groups seeking favored treatment while masquerading as proponents of the public weal. This is the evil which the Lobbying Act was designed to help prevent.
Toward that end, Congress has not sought to prohibit these pressures.
It has merely provided for a modicum of information
Thus construed, §§ 305 and 308 also do not violate the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment

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