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5 Things You Didn’t Know About Citizens United (Video)

January 20, 2014   •  By IFS Staff   •  ,
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The video examines five common misconceptions about the Citizens United decision that many critics of the decision tend to gloss over, such as the government’s argument that they should be able to ban books and that the decision did not create the concept of corporate personhood.

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