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 Campaign Finance Hits First Legal Test
 
 By Edward Walsh
 
 The new campaign finance law, which took effect Nov. 6, faces its first major legal test Wednesday in oral arguments before a special panel of three federal judges. The presentations are certain to be lofty, touching on the First Amendment and other part
s of the Constitution as the two sides debate the future shape of the American political system.