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As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions…

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This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by…
Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it…
They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of…
What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.
In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to…
I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing…
If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good…
The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes…
What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do…
Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve…
Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well…
As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit…

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Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills. — William J. Clinton
A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again,… — Emile Durkheim
We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are… — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the… — Seneca the Younger
A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire. — Jean Giraudoux
An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must… — Henri Matisse
Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom. — Michelangelo
An artist must not feel under any constraint. — Henri Matisse
Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of… — Leonardo da Vinci
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of… — Michael Stean
Creativity comes from constraint. — Biz Stone

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