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27: 1587: 958: 245:. It was the first federal law to require public disclosure of spending by political parties, but not candidates, by requiring national committees of political parties to file post-election reports on their contributions to individual candidates and their own expenditures. However, it covered only multi-state political parties and election committees, carried few penalties, and was rarely enforced. 261:. The amendments also required financial disclosure by candidates for the first time and established limits on the amount of money that candidates were allowed to spend on their campaigns. House campaign expenditures were limited to $ 5,000 and Senate expenditures to $ 10,000, but states could set lower limits. 282:
On February 28, 1925, the Act was revised and strengthened to extend its coverage to multi-state parties and election committees and to require financial disclosure reports to be made quarterly. Any contribution over $ 100 now had to be reported, and the Senate campaign spending limit was raised to $
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However, the stronger version failed to provide for adequate regulation of campaign finance. The law provided for no regulatory authority to establish the manner of reporting or its disclosure to the public, and it set no penalties for failure to comply. The law did not regulate total contributions,
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313 U.S. 299 (1941), upheld the spending limits in federal elections. It limited its ruling, however, by concluding that Congress's power to regulate extended only if state law made primaries and nominations part of the election and/or the primary effectively determined the outcome of the election.
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which encouraged parties and donors to set up multiple committees and make multiple donations, all under $ 100, to evade the law's limits. Enforcement was left up to Congress, which rarely acted.
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that was enacted in 1910 and amended in 1911 and 1925. It remained the nation's primary law regulating campaign finance in federal elections until the passage of the
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An Act providing for publicity of contributions made for the purpose of influencing elections at which Representatives in Congress are elected.
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Corrado, Anthony; Mann, Thomas E.; Ortiz, Daniel R.; Potter, Trevor; Sorauf, Frank J., eds. (1997).
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The Act built upon the prohibition on corporate contributions in the
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The US Supreme Court upheld the reporting requirements in
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On August 19, 1911, the Act was amended to extend it to
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Index

Great Seal of the United States
61st United States Congress
Pub. L.
61–274
Statutes at Large
Stat.
822
2 U.S.C.: Congress
U.S.C.
2 U.S.C.
ch. 8
37-30
William H. Taft
United States
Federal Election Campaign Act
William Howard Taft
Tillman Act of 1907
political parties
House
general elections
Senate
primary elections
Supreme Court of the United States
Newberry v. U.S.
Burroughs v. United States
United States v. Classic
Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971
doi
10.2307/1115680
JSTOR

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