It looks as if you overlooked the word "manner".
As I said, the government has no constitutional power to limit campaign contributions by corporations.
The same Supreme Court that said the Corporations are "persons" also ruled that congress can prohibit corporations from making donations to candidates for election to Federal offices.
You seem to claim that corporations should be free to contribute as much money as they want to elections because they have the same free speech rights as you. Is that right?
And since you also seem to have the opinion that there should be no limits to the amount they contribute, would you be in favor of allowing King Saud (or a corporation wholly owned by the Saudi Royal Family) contributing a billion dollars to the re-election of Obama?
Would you have a problem with that?
Your use of the word "manner" as it appears in Section 4. Clause 1 contradicts the BOR.
You seem to claim that corporations should be free to contribute as much money as they want to elections because they have the same free speech rights as you. Is that right?
Corporations can't speak, people speak. You seem to think the government can limit the free speech of individuals simply because they claim to speak in the name of a corporation. Apparently (since you never answered my questions) you think the government can deny people the right to bare arms, the right to due process and whatever else is in the BOR all simply because they are associating with a corporation at that time they wish to speak, bare arms have due process...etc.
That is a statist point of view. That is an unconstitutional point of view. That is simply -- wrong.
And since you also seem to have the opinion that there should be no limits to the amount they contribute, would you be in favor of allowing King Saud (or a corporation wholly owned by the Saudi Royal Family) contributing a billion dollars to the re-election of Obama? Would you have a problem with that?
King Saud's inalienable rights are not protected in this country by the Constitution. Laws that would restrict King Sauds free speech rights are NOT unconstitutional.