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Argued May 21, 1974.
Decided June 20, 1974.
Rehearing Denied July 9, 1974.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Robert S. Stubbs, II, Executive Assistant Attorney General, Don A. Langham, Andrew J. Owen, Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, for appellants.
Heyman & Sizemore, Lamar W. Sizemore, Ralph G. McCallum, Terry P. McKenna, Robert A. Bartlett, for appellee.
Stan M. Lefco, Dave Hendrick, Nathan Crystal, Robert Windholtz, B.J. Powell, Gary Ackerman, Timothy S. Perry, amicus curiae.
Supreme Court of Georgia.
PER CURIAM.
This appeal is from a judgment declaring the "Campaign Financing Disclosure Act" (Ga. L. 1974, p. 155) unconstitutional. We reverse. Parts of the Act are unconstitutional. However, the judiciary will not, and indeed can not, void an enactment of the General Assembly merely because it is defective in part. Constitutional principles dictate that such defective parts be excised and the remainder sustained provided...
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