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Fareed Zakaria GPS

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The Politics of Money

In 1976, the Supreme Court struck down limits on how much a candidate could spend. The court argued that under the First Amendment, money was a form of speech. This ruling unleashed the floodgates of money into politics. After Citizens United, there were calls for a constitutional amendment to overturn the decision.

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