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Showing Original Post only (View all)Vermont Introduces Resolution to Amend US Constitution, Ban Corporate Personhood [View all]
http://morallowground.com/2011/01/23/vermont-introduces-resolution-to-amend-us-constitutionban-corporate-personhood/23rd January 2011 · 14 Comments
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Its been one year since the US Supreme Court decided that corporations are people and money is free speech. The disastrous Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling destroyed over a century of restrictions on corporate influence of our nations electoral process, accelerating the already alarming corporate takeover of American politics. The consequences of Citizens United were almost immediately felt in the form of a $290,000,000 special interest spending orgy in the 2010 midterm elections. Much of this money represented foreign corporate interests, and it played a significant role in the conservative resurgence that saw Republicans re-gain control of the House of Representatives.
Justice John Paul Stevens stirring dissenting opinion argued that the Courts ruling threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions across the nation. It will undoubtedly cripple the ability of ordinary citizens, Congress, and the states to adopt even limited measures to protect against corporate domination of the electoral process. Stevens also wrote: 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.
In that spirit, Vermont state senator Virginia Lyons has introduced an anti-corporate personhood resolution in the state legislature. JRS 11 is a joint resolution urging the United States Congress to propose an amendment to the United States Constitution for the states consideration which provides that corporations are not persons under the laws of the United States or any of its jurisdictional subdivisions. The resolution continues:
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Vermont Introduces Resolution to Amend US Constitution, Ban Corporate Personhood [View all]
Fire Walk With Me
Dec 2011
OP
This is a good step but Vermont and other states should go further by calling
jerseyjack
Dec 2011
#1
Blast, didn't see that. No, sorry, I know no more off the top of my head.
Fire Walk With Me
Dec 2011
#8
Corporations can NOT be people ... at least not until Texas executes one of them
66 dmhlt
Dec 2011
#14