Our greatest challenge is to Abolish Corporate Personhood

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The U.S. Constitution, which defines our nation of popular sovereignty, boldly begins with three simple words, written large, "We the People." These three famous words convey responsibility equally to all people to make our own laws.

But "We the People" have never included all the people. Those in power always try to maintain power. Initially, only land-owning white men voted. It took a century, the Civil War and three constitutional amendments to abolish slavery and let black men vote. The 19th Amendment ratified in 1920 let women vote. In the 1960s, amendments eliminated poll taxes to protect poor, mostly black voters, and allowed Washington DC voters to participate in presidential elections. In 1971, the 26th Amendment established a consistent national minimum voting age.

But as soon as freed male slaves were allowed to vote, the wealthiest white men created a better way to maintain control. Starting in the 1880s, ironically using the 14th Amendment, one of the Reconstruction Amendments that abolished the legal fiction that a person was property, corporate attorneys convinced a few judges (who were previously corporate attorneys) to create corporate personhood, the legal fiction that property is a person. This gave corporations, which are non-human, artificial legal entities for owning property, some of the rights intended for freed slaves. Toiling another century, more attorneys convinced more judges to expand corporate rights to add protections from the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments. (Legislators who were elected through the largesse of corporations shoulder the blame for allowing these decisions to stand.)

Today, corporate personhood is fully mature, giving corporations all the rights necessary to combine with their wealth to control our governance. Using modern media and marketing science, voters are persuaded which candidates to elect. With gifts, campaign contributions and no spending limits on lobbyists, lawmakers are influenced. "We the People" are not in control; instead, non-humans dominate the process of making laws that control humans!

Don't be fooled into believing that corporations are controlled by humans. Although corporations were initially created centuries ago by lawmakers for the purpose of serving the public good, they now must obey legal obligations to strive for profit, not public good. Corporations are not human, they simply don't share our morality or mortality and they have no business participating in the process of making laws that govern people. Democracy embodies the ideal of one person, one vote, but corporations have hijacked democracy by diminishing the power of all our votes below the influence of their wealth.

To gain control, humans must ban corporations from politics using a constitutional amendment that abolishes corporate personhood. Corporations serve a vital function in our society; they allow capital to be combined to accomplish amazing things. They drive our glorious way of life and prosperity. We must provide corporations with the rights and tools they need to thrive while serving the public good; we can do that without letting them participate in our law making process. But they'll use their persuasive powers to disagree. They'll vilify candidates who promise to limit corporate influence. We must be strong and ignore their deluge of ads and pundits, and only vote for candidates who put "We the People" above "We the Corporations."

If you believe in America's ideals for democracy, that all people are created equal and have an inalienable right to govern themselves, then you have a civic obligation to understand how corporate personhood nullifies democracy.

Watch the documentary ~The Corporation~ on YouTube at http://youtube.com/watch?v=Pin8fbdGV9Y&feature=PlayList&p=FA50FBC214A... to learn more about the nature of corporations and corporate personhood.

Click http://tinyurl.com/yv33og to search the Internet for more information about corporate personhood.

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Corporate personhood is an insidious and undeniable threat to our democracy. We've allowed corporations to get their powerful tendrils so deep into every facet of our society that we can no longer do anything without corporate approval. So until we abolish corporate personhood, we are slaves and corporations are our masters.

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[max24ist]

Not allowed to vote. But theypay taxes, doesent that entitle them to some Human rights? nd i belive they can be punished unlike/like Humans

[MikePryslak]

I believe corporations should have the minimum set of rights necessary to function (own property, utilize the legal system, etc.). I don't think corporations should have, for example, a right against self-incrimination. I do not believe corporations should be allowed to participate in the process of law making. (I do believe individual owners of corporations should be allowed to participate in the process of law making - but only as individuals.) But my opinions are contrary to current law.

[DanTheManDavis]

Mike, You've seen the entire video entitled THE CORPORATION. That means then that you know about the difference between sovereign State citizenship (where "free Persons" are recognized at A.1 S.2 C.3) versus voluntary servitude by deception (under the Fourteenth).

[MikePryslak]

Dan, which chapter of THE CORPORATION explains this so I can watch it again?

[Truthbandit]

we do not have a democracy, it is a republic. Learn the difference.

[AmericasMaji]

Corporations, while not evil, are the Feudal Lords and Holdings of this era. They are indeed governments.

[b29349]

i wish you the best for this. start w/ Lincoln in 1864. without corps to expand the railroads I would be living in the CSA not USA.

[G1SpaceDoll]

Hey did you guys realize that the government is a corporation in reality. Getting rid of Corporations, Good luck with that one.

[meadbert]

Corporations are what allow common citizens to compete with Billionaires. If associations of citizens are banned from coming together to campaign then this leaves them at a severe disadvantage to billionaires that control entire companies.

[devourerofbabies]

If corporations are persons, then they shouldn't be able to buy each other or own subsidiaries. Because that would be slavery.

[squellock]

Excellent post. I found it after posting mine on the same subject. please see Guard labor on squellock at Utube. JD

[ThePintsizeslasher]

OK...

Care to add anything, you know like, why you think that? What don't you agree with?

[bigollameo]

I don't think so.

[ThePintsizeslasher]

No, they are symptoms of governments. They are enlarged, fed, sustained, subsidized and protected by states, firms as large or as abusive as modern corporations could not survive in a free society

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