The controversial campaign spending decision of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission Select the correct answer below: O has resulted in very little change in election spending O is not a very controversial and changed very little in regards to campaign spending O has resulted in a sharp increase in election spending has resulted in a sharp decrease in election spending
The citizen's united versus federal election commission
The supreme court of America prohibited the big corporations from purchasing speech by declaring the finance used on the advertising and airing related to a candidate for election on federal campaign as unconstitutional if the speech was broadcasted within 60 days of general election or 30 days of primary election.
here case was that the Citizen's United wanted to broadcast the documentary related to Hilary Clinton and thus here they wanted to market it and for all these the Citizen's United was taking money from a profiteering organization. Thus here the Citizen's United was in violation of an corporate spending money in election campaigns.
Here we have to understand the First amendment, according to which the supreme court gave its verdict that if the documentary was made by individuals then the documentary was in no violation of the law of the land.
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