McGovern Constitutional Amendment Ends Corporate Personhood
Yesterday, U.S. Representative James McGovern introduced H. J. Res. 88, legislation that begins the process of amending the Constitution of the United States of America. If passed and ratified, the amendment would end the legal status of corporations as persons, and stop the current practice of unlimited independent congressional campaign funding with money that comes from undisclosed sources.
McGovern’s proposed amendment reads:
Section 1. We the people who ordain and establish this Constitution intend the rights protected by this Constitution to be the rights of natural persons.
`Section 2. The words people, person, or citizen as used in this Constitution do not include corporations, limited liability companies or other corporate entities established by the laws of any State, the United States, or any foreign state, and such corporate entities are subject to such regulation as the people, through their elected State and Federal representatives, deem reasonable and are otherwise consistent with the powers of Congress and the States under this Constitution.
`Section 3. Nothing contained herein shall be construed to limit the people’s rights of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, free exercise of religion, freedom of association and all such other rights of the people, which rights are inalienable.’.
Many Democrats in Congress have done a lot of talking about taking a stand against the idea of corporate personhood. Now that they have the opportunity to take concrete action on the issue, what are they actually doing?
So far, there are zero cosponsors for Representative McGovern’s amendment.
Why no cosponsors? Surely it’s important enough. Is it just considered hopeless?
GOD SPEED!