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Cal
- 281 days ago - org2.democracyinaction.org

To correct the damage the Supreme Court has done to the First Amendment and the Constitution, we need to pass a constitutional amendment of our own that puts people ahead of corporations. Below is a model resolution in support of the People's Rights Amend

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Cal Mendelsohn (839)

Tuesday August 14, 2012, 3:06 pm
Many thanks to my good firend Florence E for directingme to this worthwhile casue.

Contents:

The
People’s
Rights
Resolution

WHEREAS,
We
the
people
adopted
and
ratified
the
United
States
Constitution
to
protect
the
free
speech
and
other
rights
of
people,
not
corporations;

WHEREAS,
Corporations
are
not
people
but
instead
are
entities
created
by
the
law
of
states
and
nations;

WHEREAS,
for
the
past
three
decades,
a
divided
United
States
Supreme
Court

has
erroneously
transformed
the
First
Amendment
into
a
powerful
tool
for
corporations
seeking
to
evade
and
invalidate
the
people’s
laws;

WHEREAS,
this
corporate
misuse
of
the
First
Amendment
and
Constitution
has
reached
an
extreme
conclusion
in
the
United
States
Supreme
Court’s
ruling
in
Citizens
United
v.
Federal
Election
Commission;

WHEREAS,
Citizens
United
v.
Federal
Election
Commission
overturned
longstanding
precedent
prohibiting
corporations
from
spending
corporate
general
treasury
funds
in
our
elections;

WHEREAS,
Citizens
United
v.
Federal
Election
Commission
unleashes
a
torrent
of
corporate
money
in
our
political
process
unmatched
by
any
campaign
expenditure
totals
in
United
States
history;

WHEREAS,
Citizens
United
v.
Federal
Election
Commission
purports
to
invalidate
state
laws
and
even
state
Constitutional
provisions
separating
corporate
money
from
elections;

WHEREAS,
Citizens
United
v.
Federal
Election
Commission
presents
a
serious
and
direct
threat
to
our
republican
democracy;

WHEREAS,
Article
V
of
the
United
States
Constitution
empowers
and
obligates
the
people
and
states
of
the
United
States
of
America
to
use
the
constitutional
amendment
process
to
correct
those
egregiously
wrong
decisions
of
the
United
States
Supreme
Court
that
go
to
the
heart
of
our
democracy
and
republican
self-‐government;
and

WHEREAS,
the
people
and
states
of
the
United
States
of
America
have
strengthened
the
nation
and
preserved
liberty
and
equality
for
all
by
using
the
amendment
process
throughout
our
history,
including
in
seven
of
the
ten
decades
of
the
20th
Century,
and
including
to
reverse
seven
erroneous
Supreme
Court
decisions.

NOW
THEREFORE
BE
IT
RESOLVED
THAT
WE
CALL
UPON
THE
UNITED
STATES
CONGRESS
TO
PASS
AND
SEND
TO
THE
STATES
FOR
RATIFICATION
A
CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT
TO
REVERSE
CITIZEN
UNITED
V.
FEDERAL
ELECTION
COMMISSION
AND
TO
RESTORE
CONSTITUTIONAL
RIGHTS
AND
FAIR
ELECTIONS
TO
THE
PEOPLE.

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