People want to be heard. There is a democratic movement sweeping the world and it all begins with the simple and basic need for people to be heard, and for their voice to be part of the self-governing (democratic) process.
In the United States we have a Constitution based on the concept that the government derives its power to govern solely from the people. A government of the people, by the people and for the people.
That concept as stated in our Declaration of Independence is elegant and complete. However its current implementation in our nation is flawed. That is due to the interpretation of our Constitution of corporations being “people”. People with the full rights and abilities afforded by the United States Constitution. A Corporate Personhood is not a natural person and should not be protected by the same rights applied to a living, natural person.
Indeed, it is the rights given to a Corporation via court interpretation of the United States Supreme Court that has significantly harmed the voice of the natural living person and caused great harm to the ideal, “of the people, by the people and for the people”.
It is with these acknowledgments of the core values of democracy and of the love of the ideal of the United States of America that it must be proposed that the only step to restoring the full liberties of the individual is to declare via Constitutional Amendment based on these ideals:
- A natural person is a living human, and the Constitution only provides protection of rights for natural persons.
- Corporations are prohibited from participating in the political process, including via campaign contribution or attempting to influence any legislative body outside of direct communication between corporate officers and political bodies.
“….this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.”
