COM-3305 Lecture : Com Law Notes Unit 1
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Class overall tip: use your book to prepare and clarify but if you do your notes right, you won"t even need to study with your book. Why have it: it"s an overall check on the government, it limits what the government can do to us, congress cant make law in these areas: Speech: over the last 150 years, they have merged; they are now treated the same. Petition: address government about something if/when they are treated unfairly: serves as a block. Conformity to constitution (us constitution) makes sure states are in line: constitution is the highest and most important way we get laws. Citizens united: 2010: court held that movie could allow companies and corporations could donate however much to political running- there was a. 5/4 vote in the court: john paul stephens wrote 60 pages opinion on this court. Mccutcheon vs. fec (2014) vote 5/4: no limits on personal donations either.
