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.
". . . 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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For more than a century, Americans have struggled with a fundamental question:
Who should govern our democracy—the people or concentrated wealth?
Today, that question has taken on new urgency. Billionaires spend unprecedented sums to influence elections. Corporate lobbyists write legislation. Super PACs dominate campaign fundraising. Artificial intelligence companies are becoming some of the most powerful corporations in history. Meanwhile, Americans across the political spectrum believe the political system is rigged.
Many agree something must change.
Congress is now considering five proposed constitutional amendments that seek to address money in politics and the influence of powerful interests.
While they all recognize the problem, they offer very different solutions.
Some regulate campaign finance.
Some establish new election rules.
Only one seeks to change the constitutional doctrines that made corporate political power possible in the first place.
Movements aren't built by organizations alone—they're built by people willing to show up.
During 7 Days in DC, we were reminded that the strength of Move to Amend has always been the incredible community of affiliates, advocates, volunteers, and allies who give their time, talents, and hearts to this work.
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Another day. Another Supreme Court decision that pushes America further down the road toward government of and for the oligarchs. In National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission, the Court once again strengthened a campaign finance doctrine built on one of the most absurd legal fictions ever embraced by the judiciary: that spending money to influence elections is the equivalent of free speech. Let's call that what it is - a doctrine that gives those with the most money the loudest voice. A billionaire can spend millions. A multinational corporation can spend millions more. The rest of us get one vote and hope someone is listening. This isn't political equality. It's legalized inequality. The Court continues to build on the devastation wrought by Citizens United, moving us further from a democracy where every citizen has an equal voice and closer to one where wealth alone determines political power. Every new crack in campaign finance law widens the gap between ordinary Americans and the interests that can afford armies of lobbyists, lawyers, consultants, and political operatives. And this decision isn't happening in a vacuum. At the same time, the Trump administration is threatening to withhold tens of millions of dollars in federal homeland security funds from states unless they adopt a sweeping set of election changes which would make voting more difficult for some eligible Americans and further concentrate political power. Whether it's weakening campaign finance safeguards or reshaping election rules, the cumulative effect is the same: democracy becomes less accountable to We the People. Campaign finance law isn't merely about campaign finance. It influences every issue that impacts our lives. From healthcare - to education, from affordable housing- to a livable environmental, from income inequality to a burgeoning militarized for-profit immigration camps - we are witnessing the extraction of all that is necessary for life, liberty and pursuits of happiness. The winners: those who already have extraordinary wealth and extraordinary access. Move to Amend has been sounding the alarm for years: corporations are not people, and money is not speech. Until we reject the idea that writing bigger checks is the same as exercising constitutional rights, our elections will remain vulnerable to domination by concentrated wealth. This is bigger than one Court case. Bigger than one administration. Bigger than one election. It is about whether democracy belongs to the people- or whether it has become another commodity that can be bought, sold, and controlled. Congress has the power to begin changing this—but only if they hear from us. Tell your representative to support the We the People Amendment (H.J.Res. 54) and help restore a government accountable to people, not concentrated wealth. |
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In Part 1 of this series, we explored how resistance to concentrated economic power helped spark the American Revolution itself. In Part 2, we examined how corporations gradually acquired constitutional rights that appear nowhere in the Constitution and were never intended by its framers. In Part 3, we looked at America's amendment eras and how ordinary people have repeatedly organized to expand democracy and rewrite the rules when the existing system no longer served the public.
That history brings us to the question before us today:
How does constitutional change actually happen?
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Move to Amend is a coalition of hundreds of organizations and hundreds of thousands of individuals committed to social and economic justice, ending corporate rule, and building a vibrant democracy that is genuinely accountable to the people, not corporate interests. We call for an amendment to the US Constitution to unequivocally state that inalienable rights belong to human beings only, and that money is not a form of protected free speech under the First Amendment and can be regulated in political campaigns. Move to Amend © Move to Amend
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