Jeffrey Smith’s June 12, 2013 article in The Atlantic, “‘Walking-Around Money’: How Machine Politics Works in America Today,” takes a look at the long history of paying for votes in U.S. elections. Get Out...
How can people make sure their vote is counted? One way is to vote both in person and via absentee ballot. Many send in their absentee ballots at the last minute, and some apparently...
Bradley Smith argues that federal government restrictions on tea party and other Constitution and conservative groups were not related to their tax-exempt status, but rather to their ability to gather, raise funds, and speak...
One of the three NCFCA policy resolutions considered was: “That the Food and Drug Administration’s labeling and safety policies should be significantly reformed.” Had that resolution been chosen, new federal regulations of sausage making...
At the Ethos Debate camp at Patrick Henry College last week, I spoke on the NCFCA topics for the first time. I showed a segment from this LearnLiberty.org video on Citizens United by Bradley Smith (former...
Much of modern mainstream economics focuses on “market failures” and ways government regulations and agencies can try to correct them. When Microsoft was believed to have too much market share, and Microsoft Explorer was...
This University of Missouri at Kansas City page reviews term limits efforts, Supreme Court decisions and the Constitution on federal election law. Term limits may well be a good idea for returning to a...
The good news for affirmative debaters is that virtually no one is happy with current federal campaign finance regulations. So there would seem to be many opportunities for reforming the system. The bad news...
For the new NCFCA policy topic (“Resolved: That federal election law should be significantly reformed in the United States), students should step back and reflect on the role of elections. Edmund Opitz at Foundation...
