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
Thursday, Sep 11, 2025, 7pm – 9:00pm (Central Time)
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Since the beginning of the year, many Minnesotans have signed the Move to Amend petition in support of the We the People Amendment. Now, we invite you to take the next step!
This session is an opportunity to:
Learn more about the amendment and why it matters.
Discover how you can help build awareness across Minnesota.
Connect with others who share your commitment to reclaiming democracy from corporate rule.
Together, we can strengthen the movement for real democracy—of, by, and for the people.
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Madiba Dennie is the author of The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take it Back, a call for the right and duty of the public to define what the Constitution means today and in the future. Dennie rejects “originalism” – the legal theory that judges, including Supreme Court Justices, should interpret the Constitution exactly as conservatives say the Founders meant it. Dennie advocates a new legal framework – 'inclusive constitutionalism" – that deliberately considers the impact of constitutional law on marginalized people and communities. In doing so, public activism and people’s movements for constitutional change become more legitimate and relevant. The interpretation and definition of the Constitution shouldn’t solely be left to the courts.
Dennie will comment on the role of Move to Amend and the We the People Amendment is helping to shape the growing culture for public involvement is constitutional change and the Amendment itself as one constitutional change required to create a real equitable democracy -- for the very first time.
Madiba K. Dennie is an attorney, columnist, and professor whose work focuses on fostering an equitable multiracial democracy. Her debut book, The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back, is now available wherever books are sold. Dennie is the Deputy Editor and Senior Contributor at the critical legal commentary outlet Balls and Strikes. In her previous role as a counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, she provided legal and policy analysis regarding a range of democracy issues including the census, the courts, and attempts to disempower communities of color. Her legal and political commentary has been featured in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and more. Dennie has been interviewed on-air about race, gender, and the law on outlets including the BBC and MSNBC. She has taught at Western Washington University and NYU School of Law. She earned her law degree from Columbia Law School and her undergraduate degree from Princeton University, where she concentrated in Politics and earned a certificate in African-American Studies.
October was a month of grit, creativity, and people-powered progress across the Move to Amend network. From the Midwest to the Deep South, our affiliates and advocates are proving once again that when the message is clear and the mission is just, people are eager to join the fight to end corporate rule.
The Populist movement of the late 19th century was the largest democratic mass movement in U.S. history. The movement included several parallel but independent organizations of farmers in the South, Midwest and High Plains. The movement later included urban working people across the country
Among the social movements covered in this series, the Populist movement is the least recognized (dare I say “popular”) and understood. Few can name any of its organizers, strategists or speakers (William Jennings Bryan doesn’t count, as explained below). There are no Populist movement holidays, postage stamps, detailed descriptions of its activities in high school history books, or even legitimate recognition of its lessons (positive or negative) incorporated in democratic activist organizations.
The movement’s relative invisibility can be explained by several factors. First, it was largely a rural movement that was the most active in a part of the country (i.e. the Midwest and South) not associated with the mass social movements. Second, it occurred during a period of U.S. history that was dominated by the rapid rise of industrialization and urbanization. And maybe, most significantly, its goals of creating an authentic bottom up democracy and bringing the corporate state under popular control through democratic politics, a democratic society grounded in mass dignity, was not going to see the light of day in our dominant corporate culture, which includes reformist non-profit democracy organizations.
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Move to Amend supporter Patrick McKercher has produced an important and timely documentary:
Narrated by Peter Coyote, the 39 minute documentary tells the story of the five times We the People have organized to defeat attempts to end our democracy, and what we can learn to meet the current crisis. It uses the playbook of Hungary's Victor Orban to understand Trump’s second term – the sixth crisis we face.
The 5 previous threats and the current one are
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