JOHN ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL
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This issue arose in 2014 with the Citizens United Case, when a 5-4 decision of the Supreme Court held that political contributions were a form of political speech and corporations had the right of Freedom of Speech. This time there were 4 dissenters.
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John Archibald Campbell was an American jurist. He was a successful lawyer in Georgia and Alabama, where he served in the state legislatures. Appointed by Franklin Pierce to the United States Supreme Court in 1853, he served until the outbreak of the American Civil War, when he became an official of the Confederate States of America. After serving six months in a military prison, he resumed a successful law practice in New Orleans, where he opposed Reconstruction.
