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MOVE TO AMEND Proposed U.S. Constitutional Amendment Rockland MOVE TO AMEND Event Protect Maine's Clean Elections MOVE TO AMEND website Sign the Petition
We the People, not We the Corporations
On January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government. Human beings are people; corporations are legal fictions.
We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United and other related cases, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.
The Supreme Court is misguided in principle, and wrong on the law. In a democracy, the people rule. text of the proposed Amendment
from David Cobb' talk - How our Constitution is Supposed to Work
In Our Constitution
the Power resides with the People who delegate certain powers to the Government
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We the People
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Government
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who are Free and Sovereign
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which is Subordinate and Accountable to the People
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who have Rights
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which has Duties
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and exists in the Public Sector |
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Where do you think corporations fit in this picure?
The Hidden History of Corporate Rule David Cobb Videos
“. . . corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of human beings, to be sure, and their 'personhood' often serves as a useful legal fiction. But they are not themselves members of “We the People” by whom and for whom our Constitution was established.” – Supreme Court Justice Stevens, January 2010
Democracy Unlimited David Cobb Help Grow the Movement
Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy
Giant corporations govern, even though they are mentioned nowhere in our Constitution or Bill of Rights. So when corporations govern, democracy is nowhere to be found. There is something else: when people live in a culture defined by corporate values, common sense evaporates. We stop trusting our own eyes, ears, and feelings. Our minds become colonized. Help us contest the authority of corporations to govern! www.poclad.org
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