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51 Cath. U. L. Rev. 785 (2001-2002)
The First Amendment Needs No Reform: Protecting Liberty from Campaign Finance Reformers

handle is hein.journals/cathu51 and id is 823 raw text is: THE FIRST AMENDMENT NEEDS NO REFORM: PROTECTING LIBERTY FROM CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORMERS James Bopp, Jr.' & Richard E. Coleson' WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed.. . . WE the People of the United States, in order to ... secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.2 America was, as President Abraham Lincoln declared at Gettysburg, conceived in liberty.3 Lady Liberty graces flags, murals, coins, and the New York Harbor. She symbolizes an essential American ideal that was enshrined in the Bill of Rights and the First Amendment guarantees of free expression and association: Congress shall make no law . . . ' James Bopp, Jr., B.A., Indiana University, 1970; J.D., University of Florida, 1973; Attorney, Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, Indiana; Of Counsel, Webster, Chamberlain & Bean, Washington, D.C.; General Counsel, James Madison Center for Free Speech; Chairman, Free Speech and Election Law Practice Group, Federalist Society. Richard E. Coleson, B.A., Indiana Wesleyan University, 1973; M.A.R., Asbury Theological Seminary, 1975; J.D., Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis, 1987; Attorney, Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, Indiana. This article is based in part on McCain-Feingold: Analysis of S. 27 as Passed by the Senate and Testimony of James Bopp, Jr. Before the House Administration Committee Regarding Constitutional Issues Raised by Recent Campaign Finance Legislation (June 14, 2001), both prepared by the present authors and published on the James Madison Center Web site. See James Madison Center for Free Speech, available at www.jamesmadisoncenter.org (last visited May 10, 2002). The authors thank James R. Mason, III, for his assistance in researching and writing the political party discussion of the aforementioned analysis of Senate Bill 27. © 2002 by James Bopp, Jr. and Richard E. Colson, all rights reserved. 1. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE para. 2 (U.S. 1776) (emphasis added). 2. U.S. CONST. pmbl. (emphasis added). 3. Abraham Lincoln, Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettsburg (Nov. 19, 1863), reprinted in THE COLLECTED WORKS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN 17 (Roy P. Basler ed., 1953).

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