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- Title: Citizens United V. FEC: the Constitutional Right That Big Corporations Should Have But Do Not Want.
- Author : Harvard Journal of Law&Public Policy
- Release Date : January 22, 2011
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 303 KB
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INTRODUCTION The most controversial Supreme Court decision of the 20092010 Supreme Court Term was, without question, Citizens United v. FEC. (1) The decision has captured the public imagination both for the question it asked and the answer it gave. In an age of much sharp political division and much incipient populism, it is easy to raise emotional flags by asking the question of whether corporations have the same rights as ordinary citizens. And it is easy for emotional involvement to turn to intense distaste in the aftermath of a decision that it is commonly thought to represent a great triumph of the conservative wing of the Court. All too many commentators, from President Barack Obama on down, have voiced their displeasure at a decision that handed corporate interests a powerful tool by which they can dominate the political arena at the expense of ordinary citizens.