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Forum Post: CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT Stating that corporations are not people.

Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 15, 2011, 11:44 p.m. EST by rsanfran (4) from San Francisco, CA
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How about this as a unifying goal of the movement?

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[-] 3 points by sudoname (1001) from Berkeley, CA 13 years ago

http://movetoamend.org/

We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United...

wikipedia:

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 08-205 (2010), was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court holding that the First Amendment prohibits government from censoring political broadcasts in candidate elections when those broadcasts are funded by corporations or unions.

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[-] 2 points by lshannon (2) 13 years ago

Would it be possible to get city by city/state by state to adopt a resolution that we, the people, support a change to the constitution that "persons" be changed to "naturally born persons". Would a trickle-up approach work? We have the cities, let's make them do something for the people. Thoughts?

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[-] 2 points by bogieharmond (4) 13 years ago

I'd personally love to see this as the ultimate goal. Corporate control of the government is at the root of so many of the issues we're trying to address.

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[-] 2 points by bogieharmond (4) 13 years ago

http://www.wolf-pac.com/

Proposed 28th Amendment: "Corporations are not people. They have none of the Constitutional rights of human beings. Corporations are not allowed to give money to any politician, directly or indirectly. No politician can raise over $100 from any person or entity. All elections must be publicly financed."

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[-] 2 points by guitarmywin (158) 13 years ago

There was a clerical error made in a Supreme court trial Santa Clara vs Southern Pacific RR of 1886. The 14th Amendment was intended as a protection for former slaves not a recourse to bully by corporations. The Supreme court ruled in favor of Santa Clara and against the railroads 'right' to equal protection under the law. However it was improperly recorded and corporations have been using it ever since.

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[-] 2 points by rsanfran (4) from San Francisco, CA 13 years ago

Thanks for the links. Again, this is not a new idea. I repeat my origional post - "how about this [amendment] as a unifying goal of the [ows] movement"

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[-] 1 points by yoss33 (269) 13 years ago

I like it because corporations aren't literally people, so they shouldn't legally be either. It makes no sense.

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[-] 1 points by sudoname (1001) from Berkeley, CA 13 years ago

I'm pretty sure someone has written an amendment like this.

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[-] 2 points by rsanfran (4) from San Francisco, CA 13 years ago

Duh! I didn't think I was the first to think of it. But what working to get it passed?

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[-] 1 points by sudoname (1001) from Berkeley, CA 13 years ago

http://www.getmoneyout.com/ is a similar proposal and has almost 250k signatures. I think all that's being done is raising awareness. I think it's becoming common knowledge how corrupt they are, now that 60 minutes has had a show on congress insider trading.

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