Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2011

Keywords

Democracy, Campaign Finance Reform, Contribution Limits, Other Reforms, Disclosure, Public Financing

Comments

This article was also published as Chapter 5, Money and Rights, in Money, Politics & the Constitution: Beyond Citizens United edited by Monica Youn and published by the Brennan Center for Justice, 2011, p. 57-75.

Abstract

This article looks at when constitutionally protected rights are interpreted by courts to include a concomitant right to spend money to effectuate the underlying right and when they are not. It concludes that there are two strands in our constitutional law: the Integral Strand, in which a right includes the right to spend money and the Blocked Strand, in which it does not.

Publication Citation

35 New York University Review of Law & Social Change 526 (2011).

Disciplines

Constitutional Law

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