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
The Constitution has been amended 27 times, so clearly it is not allergic to change.
Join fellow Move to Amend grassroots leaders for a lively working session to develop Constitution Day 2026 events, programming, tools, and resources. Together, we will continue to turn Constitution Day into more than a ceremonial reading of a 239-year-old document - and use it as an opportunity to educate, organize, and build momentum for a democracy that belongs to people, not corporations.
Bring your experience, imagination and local perspective. Revolutionary ideas welcome!
Please come ready with one idea, one question, or one resource you think could help make Constitution Day 2026 bold, accessible, educational, and impossible to ignore.
Together, we can help people understand that the Constitution is not a museum piece - it is a living framework, and democracy is a group project.
Join us at 6pm PT/ 7pm MT/ 8pm CT/ 9pm ET
Santa Clara County Move To Amend Affiliate Monthly Meeting
Come join us in pursuing the goals of Move To Amend, the 28th Amendment. We are an active group with various projects and room for new volunteers.
We meet the first Wednesday of every month at 7:00PM Pacific Standard Time.
Please R.S.V.P. to join.
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. In Part 4, we examined how constitutional change actually happens—and why organized people, not political institutions acting alone, have always been the driving force.
Now, in Part 5, we turn to the movement for women’s suffrage: a generations-long struggle that overcame political exclusion, changed the Constitution, and demonstrated that rights denied by those in power can be won through sustained popular organizing.
August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment, clearing the final constitutional hurdle needed to prohibit denying citizens the vote on the basis of sex.
Congress is still home — but not for much longer.
August Recess is underway, and this may be one of your last opportunities to catch your Representative and Senators while they are back home before Congress returns to Washington.
Corporate power is consuming our democracy and corrupting our constitutional republic. This is the movement working to build what comes next.
The world is running out of time.
We are watching war and genocide unfold while corporations profit. Authoritarianism is advancing in plain sight. ICE agents are killing people in our streets, armed National Guard troops are being deployed throughout our nation’s capital, and dissent is increasingly met with intimidation, surveillance, and force. Corporations poison our air and water, ravage the planet, and sacrifice entire communities for profit as the climate crisis accelerates. Billionaires buy elections and hoard unimaginable wealth while working families struggle to afford food, housing, and healthcare. Systemic racism determines whose neighborhoods are polluted, whose votes are suppressed, whose bodies are criminalized, and whose lives are treated as disposable. These are not isolated emergencies. They are the consequences of a political and economic system built to concentrate power, protect profit, and place corporations and the ultra-wealthy above people and the planet.
This is not normal. It is not accidental. And these are not separate crises.
They share a root cause: a system that places corporate power, and concentrated wealth over human life and democratic self-government
The strength of Move to Amend has always been our people. Across the country, affiliates and advocates are building relationships with elected officials, educating their communities, recruiting new supporters, and growing the movement for the We the People Amendment.
This month, we're celebrating just a few of the many people making a difference.
The House has passed a staggering $1.15 trillion military authorization bill—and buried inside it is a plan to bind America’s military future even more tightly to Israel’s wars.
The Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act is not just another Pentagon spending bill. It is a blueprint for permanent war—written while weapons corporations and powerful lobbying networks wield far more influence in Washington than the people who will pay the price.
Its message is unmistakable:
The American people can oppose the wars. Congress will fund and expand them anyway.
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