Independence Day - Independence From What?

We the People, Not We the Corporations

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.

We Move to Amend.

". . . 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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As noted in the earlier post today, 'July 4th', the US constitution was not conceived for the benefit of the whole of the people but for the already privileged. However worthy the goal of We Move To Amend to rein in the excesses of global corporatism and to reserve constitutional rights for human beings it is only one small step on the road to a democracy where 'the people rule.'
For this to happen sufficient numbers of the US and the world wide population will have understood and accepted that only by removing the whole structure of capitalism can we progress to the democracy of "We the People."
JS