Sesame and LiliesYale University Press, 01/01/2002 - 240 من الصفحات In this publication, two leading law professors challenge the existing campaign reform agenda in America and present an initiative that claims to avoid the mistakes of the past. Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres build on the example of the secret ballot and propose a system of secret donation booths for campaign contributions. They unveil a plan in which the government provides each voter with a special credit card account containing 50 Patriot dollars for presidential elections. To use this money, citizens go to their local ATM machine and anonymously send their Patriot dollars to their favourite candidates or political organizations. Americans are free to make additional contributions, but they must also give these gifts anonymously. Because candidates cannot identify who provided the funds, it will be much harder for big contributors to buy political influence. And the need for politicians to compete for the Patriot dollars will give much more power to the people. Ackerman and Ayres work out the operating details of their plan, anticipate problems, design safeguards, suggest overseers, and show how their proposals satisfy the most stringent constitutional requirements. They conclude with a model statute that could serve as the basis of a serious congressional effort to restore Americans' faith in democratic politics. |
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... believe the athletic health of our schoolboys might be made perfectly consistent with a spirit of more courtesy and reverence, both for men and things, than is recognisable in the behaviour of modern youth. Some year or two back, I was ...
... believe the athletic health of our schoolboys might be made perfectly consistent with a spirit of more courtesy and reverence, both for men and things, than is recognisable in the behaviour of modern youth. Some year or two back, I was ...
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... believe what I told her , or to do what I asked her . ― 6. First , be quite sure of one thing , that , however much you may know , and whatever advantages you may possess , and however good you may be , you have not been singled out ...
... believe what I told her , or to do what I asked her . ― 6. First , be quite sure of one thing , that , however much you may know , and whatever advantages you may possess , and however good you may be , you have not been singled out ...
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... Believe me then, the only right principle of action here is to consider good and evil as defined by our natural sense of both; and to strive to promote the one, and to conquer the other, with as hearty endeavour as if there were, indeed ...
... Believe me then, the only right principle of action here is to consider good and evil as defined by our natural sense of both; and to strive to promote the one, and to conquer the other, with as hearty endeavour as if there were, indeed ...
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... believe it now , or you would be less complacent in your state ; and you cannot believe it at all , until you know that the Kingdom of God means , - " not meat and drink , but justice , peace , and joy in the Holy Ghost , " 3 nor until ...
... believe it now , or you would be less complacent in your state ; and you cannot believe it at all , until you know that the Kingdom of God means , - " not meat and drink , but justice , peace , and joy in the Holy Ghost , " 3 nor until ...
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... believe the utmost good . The best women are indeed necessarily the most difficult to know ; they are recognized chiefly in the happiness of their husbands and the nobleness of their children ; they are only to be divined , not ...
... believe the utmost good . The best women are indeed necessarily the most difficult to know ; they are recognized chiefly in the happiness of their husbands and the nobleness of their children ; they are only to be divined , not ...
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Glossary | 95 |
Rethinking Sesame and Lilies | 111 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 205 |
List of Contributors | 209 |
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