Corporations Are Not “We the People,” Humans Are: Revoke Corporate Personhood

Target: US Congress

Goal: Amend the constitution to remove the rights of corporate personhood.

In 2010, the US Supreme Court ruled corporations were people with First Amendment rights of free speech. This allows corporate entities to donate unlimited funds to any political campaign they choose. For years, the courts upheld multiple precedents denying this power until the conservative-led Supreme Court decision in 2010.

With this act of judicial activism, the Supreme Court gave corporations the same rights as people. However, corporations have much deeper coffers than humans and exert far greater influence on the political process. Additionally, corporations can live in perpetuity while human lifespan is limited. Corporations are now super-citizens with further reaching, longer lasting rights than the Constitution grants any person.

The Constitution outlines the rights of humans in the United States. The authors never intended to grant the right of corporate personhood. In fact, after the Revolutionary War, the people of the United States spent more than 100 years protecting citizen sovereignty against undue corporate influence or control. A Supreme Court decision in the late 1800s was the first act of judicial activism to pave the way to the current level of corporate personhood.

Spending money to influence political outcomes is not free speech, and removing a corporation’s ability to do so will not infringe on the rights of any single citizen. The government grants rights to corporate entities that individuals do not have, such as limited liability and perpetual lifespan. Corporations maintain tremendous dominance they use to build their own wealth and power at the expense of actual human beings.

Please sign this petition seeking a constitutional amendment to eliminate corporate personhood. Help restore the original definition of “We the people” to mean humans and not corporate entities.

PETITION LETTER

Dear United States Congress:

In the US Constitution, “We the people” refers to human beings, not corporations. The Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission was an act of judicial activism allowing corporations to unduly influence the political process.

This country’s founding fathers never intended corporate personhood when they wrote the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. For more than 100 years, lawmakers protected citizen sovereignty over corporate control until another act of judicial activism opened the door for corporate personhood.

Corporations have too much power. Allowing them to spend unlimited money to influence the political process while protecting it as the human right of “free speech” turns corporations into super-citizens with deep coffers, limited liability, and perpetual lifespan.

It is time to restore “We the people” to the actual humans making up the American citizenry. Limit corporate power and revoke corporate personhood by amending the Constitution. Corporations are not people, humans are.

Sincerely,

[Your Name Will Go Here]