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Given that the First Amendment protects citizens’ right “to petition the government for redress of grievances,” legislators have only limited constitutional leeway to regulate political expression. But without draconian speech restrictions, reformers are left with only marginal changes that do not affect the underlying incentives to donate, and, as a result, campaign finance reforms just shift money around. So, when “soft” money was banned by the 2002 McCain-Feingold reform, candidates raised more “hard” money, and 527s (such as the Swift Boat...
...Bayrou: I'm not saying we abandon left and right, just that everyone - left, right and center-has to work together. Each takes its place in working to redress the problems that France faces today. My majority will be a large one, with the center as its axis...
...dispossessed in China's giddy rush to modernity. These are the Petitioners, representing millions of ordinary Chinese here to highlight some local injustice they have suffered - the illegal seizure of land or houses, or bullying by local authorities. They are exercising their millennia-old right to appeal for redress to those in power in the capital. Almost as old as China itself, this system has long served as a safety-valve, a court of last appeal for the desperate. Most of the main ministries run petitioning offices where supplicants can bring the thick bundles of papers documenting their cases that...
...more about targeting specific development engines that may well create decent-paying jobs. The gesture may be too little too late to repair Bush's own frayed relations with the region, but it "helps lay the groundwork for a new, more engaged approach to Latin America that tries to redress the tremendous gap between what Washington cares about and what Latin Americans worry about," says Michael Shifter, vice president for policy at the Washington-based think thank Inter-American Dialogue...
...slumber party invite; it’s the e-mail pitch for Female Sexuality (or “FemSex”), a student-facilitated not-for-credit seminar given at the Harvard College women’s center four nights a week. The class aims to redress what it sees as the shortcomings of feminist liberation by enabling students to throw off the perceived shackles repressing female sexuality...