Question

It is not unusual for a modern Presidential campaign in the United States of America to incur costs close to:

Question 1 options:

	$400 million
	$600 million
	$800 million
	$1 billion

Laws governing campaign contributions were put in place by the ________ in 1971 and later refined by the ________ in 2002.

Question 2 options:

	Federal Election Campaign Act, Citizens United
	Federal Election Campaign Act, Buckley v. Valeo
	Federal Election Campaign Act, McCain-Feingold Campaign Law
	McCain-Feingold Campaign Law, Citizens United

A "Super PAC" can directly contribute to a candiate's campaign?

Question 3 options:

	True
	False

The central argument in Citizens United v FEC was that limitations on campaign contributions limited the rights of corporations given by the:

Question 4 options:

	First Amendment
	Second Amendment
	Tenth Amendment
	Twenty-Seventh Amendment

Answer 1

1. Option D

The spending limit for 2020 for publicly funded general election presidential candidates is $103,701,600.

2. Option C

There have been four major periods of U.S. campaign-finance regulation in the past century: the era before the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) of 1971 and its subsequent amendments; the era from 1974 to 2002, when FECA regulated campaigns; the era following the enactment of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) of 2002; and the era following Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down crucial provisions of the BCRA.

3. False

4. First amendment