Legalizing Corporate Political Speech: How Citizens United Laid the Groundwork for Corporations' Right to Political Speech

Authors

Karen Sebold, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Streaming Media

Document Type

Video

Publication Date

9-17-2020

Keywords

US Constitution, political speech, Citizens United, US politics, elections, democracy

Abstract

The right to political speech is essential for democracy, but should corporations have the same rights as individual persons? In this presentation, Prof. Sebold explains how the US Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United determined that political speech extends to corporations and what that ruling may imply for US politics.

Comments

Constitution Day Talk, 2020

*Please note that the lecture actually begins at about 11:50 of the video recording.*

Citation

Sebold, K. (2020). Legalizing Corporate Political Speech: How Citizens United Laid the Groundwork for Corporations' Right to Political Speech. Political Science Teaching and Learning. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/plsclearn/1