Money is one manner of holding elections, and equal citizens means equal funding from the voters. Advocate for free and fair elections, not the free and expensive elections brought on by the undemocratic lie that money spent on speech is speech.We want a representative democracy our opponents in government want corporate plutocracy or plutocratic corporatism.Demand a Congress dependent upon “ the people alone,” not dependent upon those very few wealthy people who are funding candidates.A resolution which calls on Congress to amend the Constitution to overturn Citizens United in West Virginia passed with bi-partisan support.16 Local Municipalities in NY have passed resolutions in support of this effort.Ask your state legislators to take the power back that the Supreme Court has usurped with Buckley (1976), Citizens United (2010) and AZ Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom PAC (2011).Notably, three out of four Republicans (74%) agreed with this statement. 69% of Americans agreed that “ new rules that let corporations, unions and people give unlimited money to Super PACs will lead to corruption.” Only 15% disagreed. Majority of Republicans, Independents and Democrats support overturning Citizens United decision.We aim to reverse undemocratic Supreme Court decisions. Nothing in the Constitution designates money as speech. Nothing in the Constitution gives associations rights. For the first 98 years of our Republic, associations, corporations, unions, etc. We’re not asking for anything unprecedented in the U.S.Enough is enough! Phone call talking points We cannot continue to allow the creations of our creations to have control over the destinies of the original creators - we the people. Governments are our creations and corporations are the governments’ creations. It is simply putting the reins back on the artificial entities that the Supreme Court has allowed to run amok in our economy, politics and legal system for 125 years. And what they usually mean by “personhood” are the Constitutional protections afforded to those legal fictions that the Founding Fathers had originally reserved exclusively for individual citizens, i.e., We the People.Ībolishing corporate personhood is not about demolishing corporations or capitalism or anything as radical as an overhaul of our economic system. When people say corporate personhood, what they usually mean by “corporate” is all legal fictions, including corporations, non-profits, unions, NGOs, PACs, political parties, incorporated towns and cities, and all other forms of organization that are created in charters granted by government agencies. “ Corporate personhood” is an incomplete shorthand in the same way that “overturn Citizens United” doesn’t encompass the entirety of the problem of money dominating politics in America. We are not and can not demand “ equality of speech.” We’re demanding “ equality of citizenship” and the end to institutional corruption as Professor Lessig describes our plutocratic order in his speech “ Equality.” It’s possible that the McCutcheon v Federal Elections Commission decision will make inequality of citizenship even worse than it is. We must convince the public that elected officials are what James Madison intended us to be, agents of the sovereign people, not the hired hands of rich givers, or what Madison called factions.” ![]() We must prove that elective office is not for sale. ![]() As the late Senator iqoption Goldwater expressed in 1983: “ ur nation is facing a crisis of liberty if we do not control campaign expenditures.
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