<span>The Supreme Court ruled that placing limitations on the amount an individual candidate could spend on his or her own campaign violated First Amendment protections of free speech.</span>
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The nobles had again sought to make themselves as powerful as possible.
In the passage, it explains that under Stephen the nobles had experienced a ton of power (the author uses the word exorbitant which shows how extremely privileged their lives were), but that Henry the Second then took a lot of their power away. Now, they are resuming their former positions (from under Stephen) to a point where they are becoming as powerful as possible.</span>
The Earth goes around the sun in approximately 365 and 1/4 days.
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when an idea is being directly quoted.