The Cato Institute and the Institute for Justice
Amici Curiae
Erik S. Jaffe, Counsel of RecordThe Cato Institute was established in 1977 as a nonpartisan public policy research foundation dedicated to advancing the principles of individual liberty, free markets, and limited government. The Institute for Justice was founded in 1991 and is the Nation’s only libertarian public interest law firm. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Appellants as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on July 8, 2003.Buckley v. Valeo (1976) erred by recharacterizing the most elemental aspects of representative democracy as "corrupt" and by creating unprincipled exceptions to the First Amendment protection of core…
