{"id":4413,"date":"2013-07-28T03:22:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T03:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=4413"},"modified":"2013-12-27T22:55:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T22:55:10","slug":"martin-carcieri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/martin-carcieri\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Carcieri"},"content":{"rendered":"

Citizens United & the Amendment Process<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Martin D Carcieri<\/h4>\n

July 28, 2013<\/h4>\n
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Citizens United v. FEC (2010) may be the most infamous Supreme Court ruling of the past decade. In this case, the Court struck down two provisions of federal law which limited corporate and union expenditures to advocate the election or defeat of candidates for federal office, holding that the provisions\u00a0violated the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment. Martin Carcieri will explain\u00a0that\u00a0although\u00a0this ruling\u00a0rests firmly on earlier Court rulings, not only is an amendment to the U.S. Constitution invalidating Citizens United the most likely amendment that could\u00a0be ratified in the next ten or twenty years, but also that\u00a0such a recalibration of the balance between private and public power would be a highly appropriate use of the amendment process of Article V of the Constitution.\u00a0 To learn more before the presentation on Sunday, you can read the Handout<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Martin Carcieri is an Associate Professor of Political Science at\u00a0San Francisco State University, where he teaches courses and seminars on Constitutional Law and Political Theory. He holds a J.D. and Ph.D. from the University of California, and has published twenty-five journal articles and book chapters.\u00a0 He is\u00a0a long time humanist, skeptic, and rationalist.<\/p>\n

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