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el_bryanto

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5. I don't know what the point to this is

Reply to Nye Bevan (Original post)

Fri Feb 22, 2013, 01:08 PM

Feb 2013

Money should not be speech. I'd favor a constitutional amendment calling for complete public financing of campaigns and redistricting to be done in a more just way so that people's votes actually matter.

Bryant

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Would you support the following Constitutional Amendment as a response to Citizens United? [View all] Nye Bevan Feb 2013 OP

Do You Have Some Kind Of Point In Mind Here, Sir? The Magistrate Feb 2013 #1

I prefer simpler and more direct language: A person shall mean a human being. nt Xipe Totec Feb 2013 #2

Sorry, nobody took that bait. leveymg Feb 2013 #3

So basically, candidates shall not have free speech 6 months before elections? OceanEcosystem Feb 2013 #4

I highly doubt that Congress would legislate to that effect. Nye Bevan Feb 2013 #7

I don't know what the point to this is el_bryanto Feb 2013 #5

Would your proposed amendment enable independent expenditures to be banned, Nye Bevan Feb 2013 #8

No way. No text. Eleanors38 Feb 2013 #6