Human beings are people; corporations are legal fictions. Move to Amend: End Corporate Rule. Legalize Democracy.

[merrill]

Move to Amend: End Corporate Rule. Legalize Democracy.
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.

We Move to Amend.
". . . 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

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission . . .opened the floodgates of big money into politics and led to the creation of Super PACs that a (show all)

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[rampart]

In a democracy, the people rule.

i've recently heard a pretty compelling constitutional argument in the "republic or democracy" controversy.

the founders did not write "we the representatives" or "the independent state legislatures."

the very forst words

"We, the People"

 

[1srelluc]

Yep, it was a shit decision.

 

[Rambunctious]

The way to end corporate rule is to take the money out of politics and have public funding of all campaigns... no more donations and no more rich donors that get all the attention from politicians...

Or elect outsiders like Trump....

 

[1srelluc]

I think it should be revisited....I don't see either Barrett or Gorsich going for it.

Hell the people that run corperations are baerly people for the most part.

No fuckin' way Zukerberg is even human.

 

[daveman]

May I assume the people who oppose corporations -- groups of people banded together for a common purpose -- donating to candidates and parties also oppose labor unions -- groups of people banded together for a common purpose -- donating to candidates and parties?

 

[EvilCat Breath]

The Constitution confers legal personhood on corporations. Start your amendment process.