It will take a long term campaign but a constitutional amendment is the only way to permanently undo the ruling.
Citizens United has already has a huge impact on our democracy. In 2010 spending on elections topped $4 billion, by far the most ever spent on a midterm election and even matching the total spent in the 2008 presidential election.
We've amended our Constitution before in moments when we needed to make fundamental changes to how our country works. Right now is one of those moments because giving corporations the full First Amendment rights of people is threatening the integrity of our democratic process.
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Full petition text:"Corporations aren't people and shouldn't be able to corrupt our democracy. We need as many state legislatures as possible to get behind the call for a constitutional amendment to reverse the Citizens United ruling."
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Corporations aren't people. We all know that. But in last year's Citizens
United decision, the Supreme Court gave corporations the same First
Amendment rights as you and me. The result was record breaking spending by
giant corporations to try to buy our elections.
We must take our democracy back. The most direct remedy we have left to
correct the Supreme Court's awful decision is a constitutional amendment
clarifying that corporations are not people.
I signed a petition urging my state leaders to support a constitutional
amendment to reverse the Supreme Court decision. Can you join me at the
link below?
http://pol.moveon.org/constitutionalamendment/?r_by=&rc=comment_mailto
Thanks!
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