1. Although it might not solve all the problems critics attribute to Citizens United, it would also provide a superior framework for determining the nature and limits of corporate constitutional rights. Framing discussion in terms of confiscation rather than in terms of the degree to which corporations are persons would allow courts more flexibility in distinguishing the rights of corporations from those of flesh and blood human beings;Bellotti and Citizens United
2. ABC News/Washington Post Poll, August 1989
3. 2. Second Lecture: Campaign Finance Reform and the First Amendment
4. As we shall see, Citizens United was not the first case to ignore the limitation. That distinction belongs to First National Bank of Boston v;However, Bellotti did not garner nearly as much attention,1978