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Citizens United and other similar cases have effectively been used to promote the idea that any campaign contributions/spending can not be limited as that is a limitation on the freedom of speech, equating money with speech. Since Congress has and will likely block any constitutional amendments to reverse these decisions, submit a class action lawsuit on behalf of the majority of citizens who do not have access to large sums of money and therefore their freedom of speech is limited/outweighed

Submitted by PaulZ in Government & Elections Dec. 26, 2014, 5:28 p.m.

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Tyson N.

If money counts as "speech", the amount of money constitutes the volume of that speech, not its content, which in the forum of campaign funding is the same regardless of volume: "I support this candidate." If a truck bearing a thousand-watt PA system rolls up to Speaker's Corner at the town square and drowns out the soapbox orators there who have only their natural voices, the latter would rightfully seek redress from government to regulate the volume of expressions in that forum to protect and defend the average citizen's freedom of expression.

Jan. 10, 2015, 4:15 p.m.

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