Following up on my invitation to some historians of corporate campaign finance limits to post on the historical record relevant in Citizens United, Adam Winkler sends along this guest post. It begins:

Thanks to Rick Hasen for inviting me to weigh in on the Citizens United case and the history of limits on corporate political spending. I’ve spent several years researching and writing on corporate political speech. In this post, I discuss three misconceptions about such limits that have been voiced during the Court’s consideration of the corporate electioneering restrictions in Citizens United.

Read Adam’s important post.