The Constitutional Logic of Campaign Finance Regulation

Abstract

In this essay, I want to do two things. First, I want to present in some detail the comprehensive regulations of the election period that exists or existed in Britain and the potentially landmark ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Bowman v. United Kingdom. Second, I want to further compare core cases from Germany and Canada to flesh out the point that reforms, to be meaningful, must have a core logic--one that will prove problematic under the inherited First Amendment traditions in the U.S.