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xchrom

(108,903 posts) Tue Mar 25, 2014, 06:16 AM Mar 2014

Will New Hampshire Be the Next State to Declare Democracy Is for People—Not Corporations?

http://www.thenation.com/blog/178975/will-new-hampshire-be-next-state-declare-democracy-people-not-corporations

Many of the votes to overturn Citizens United took place in New Hampshire Town Halls. (Wikimedia Commons/John Phelan)

Granny D would, no doubt, be quite proud of her hometown and her home state.

In 1999 and 2000, Doris “Granny D” Haddock walked 3,300 miles from California to Washington, DC, in order to highlight the crisis of money in politics. That was remarkable. What was even more remarkable was that she started the walk at age 88, finished at age 90 and then kept right on campaigning for another decade—until she died at age 100 in 2010. Indeed, Granny D celebrated her last birthdays lobbying for campaign finance reform at the capitol of her native New Hampshire.

So it was entirely fitting that, as dozens of New Hampshire communities voted this month on resolutions urging their state to take a stand in favor of amending the U.S. Constitution to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, many of them referred to the town meeting proposals as “Granny D Warrant Articles.”

The Granny D Warrant Articles—which rejected the high court calculus that afforded corporations the same political rights as human being—proved to be exceptionally popular.

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Will New Hampshire Be the Next State to Declare Democracy Is for People—Not Corporations? (Original Post) xchrom Mar 2014 OP

This is a wonderful topic and worth knowing more about. MADem Mar 2014 #1

HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!! WillyT Mar 2014 #2

MADem

(135,425 posts)

1. This is a wonderful topic and worth knowing more about.

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Tue Mar 25, 2014, 06:26 AM

Mar 2014

https://movetoamend.org/frequently-asked-questions

What is the language of the amendment?

Move to Amend Proposed Amendment

Section 1 (Corporations are not people and can be regulated)

The rights protected by the Constitution of the United States are the rights of natural persons only.

Artificial entities, such as corporations, limited liability companies, and other entities, established by the laws of any State, the United States, or any foreign state shall have no rights under this Constitution and are subject to regulation by the People, through Federal, State, or local law.

The privileges of artificial entities shall be determined by the People, through Federal, State, or local law, and shall not be construed to be inherent or inalienable.

Section 2 (Money is not speech and can be regulated)

Federal, State and local government shall regulate, limit, or prohibit contributions and expenditures, including a candidate’s own contributions and expenditures, for the purpose of influencing in any way the election of any candidate for public office or any ballot measure.

Federal, State and local government shall require that any permissible contributions and expenditures be publicly disclosed.

The judiciary shall not construe the spending of money to influence elections to be speech under the First Amendment.

Section 3

Nothing contained in this amendment shall be construed to abridge the freedom of the press.

I love this movement, because, if money is speech, then the poor are muzzled.

WillyT

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2. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Thu Mar 27, 2014, 06:43 PM

Mar 2014

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