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Soft Money Soft Money: Constitutional or Unconstitutional' When President Bush signed the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform law in 2002, he did so in high hopes of limiting the usage of soft money and other forms of corrupt government procedures. Already political activists are arguing the constitutionality of the law. They say that the law limits our 1st Amendment right of free speech, even though the candidates’ rights are not restricted, only limited. The law decreases the chances for corruption, and increases fairness. The U.S. Government has done its job of maintaining democracy by establishing this constitutional law. The right to freedom of speech is given to us in the 1st Amendment, Article 1, section 4 of our constitution. Those apposed to the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform say that it violates the right of free speech. They say that limiting “informational ads” by non-profit organizations, along with regularly checking each candidate’s bank statement is unconstitutional. The law was partly made to protect fairness. Without this law, the other not so well-known candidate, for he may not have the connections and/or law, money, right, government, elections, soft, campaign, speech, say, reform, protect, mccain-feingold, corruption, constitutional, amendment, 1st, without, unconstitutional, rather, political, office, maintaining, limiting, leader, keep, job, given, free, finance, fairness, democracy, corrupt, constitution, candidates, big