The Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in 2010 found that corporations and unions could not be banned from spending money on campaigns, on the basis that it was a form of protected free speech under the First Amendment of the US Constitution. The decision did not remove all restrictions on campaign finance, but it did open the floodgates for corporate and special interest spending in political campaigns.

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A) found private citizens should not have limits on the amount of money they can spend on campaigns.
B) found corporations and unions could not be banned from spending money on campaigns.
C) found private citizens had the same free speech rights as corporations.
D) found corporate and union donations to campaigns was not covered as a form of free speech.
E) invalidated the government's use of an elections commission to regulate campaign donations.

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