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Campaign financing has long been an avenue for buying influence from politicians. The unfortunate Supreme Court decision in Citizen’s United case worsened the problem exponentially. Many describe our current campaign finance system as one of flagrant and endemic bribery. Limiting campaign contributions prevents wealthy individuals, corporations, or pooled-resource groups (unions, industry consortiums, issue-based organizations, etc.) from gaining influence by campaign donations.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Comment Instructions” _builder_version=”4.4.6″ background_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0)” custom_padding=”5px|10px|5px|10px|false|false” saved_tabs=”all” global_module=”479″]<\/p>\n Comments are welcome below. All comments must be respectfully written and not contain misinformation or fallacious reasoning. We welcome thoughtful dialogue of differences.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.4.6″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.4.6″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.6″][et_pb_comments _builder_version=”4.4.6″][\/et_pb_comments][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.4.6″ background_color=”rgba(205,167,249,0.38)”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.4.6″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.6″][et_pb_menu _builder_version=”4.4.6″ custom_padding=”|10px||10px|false|false” saved_tabs=”all” global_module=”228″][\/et_pb_menu][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.6″] Campaign financing has long been an avenue for buying influence from politicians. The unfortunate Supreme Court decision in Citizen’s United case worsened the problem exponentially. Many describe our current campaign finance system as one of flagrant and endemic bribery. Limiting campaign contributions prevents […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}