Topic: Buckley v. Valeo, 1976

Everyone recognizes that no government can invade our personal lives and control where we choose to spend our money, at least within reason. But what happens when the way we spend our money becomes … speech? With the passage of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, campaign funding and spending was placed under more stringent regulation and was amended to create the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) in 1974, but had sparked backlash who saw this as a violation of their First Amendment freedoms of speech, as it limited the impact those with money could spend to influence politics. In the 1976 Supreme Court Case Buckley v. Valeo, delegates will be forced to balance anti-corruption measures with our freedom of speech to navigate the extension of free speech to campaign finance.

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