Effective speech is inconvenient to those in power because it can make them adjust their plans or risk being fired. But, for all its complexity and compromise, Buckley stood fast on a key point: the Constitution protects effective political organization. The central insight that funding is necessary to effective advocacy remains the most controversial and important of Buckley's holdings. Limits on direct political contributions were permissible, but only if they did not prevent a candidate from "amassing the resources necessary for effective advocacy." And always, in the background, is the question of whether a particular restriction makes "effective advocacy" untenable.