"We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling and other related cases, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights." Yes! BUT, we do not need a Constitutiona…
"We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling and other related cases, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights." Yes! BUT, we do not need a Constitutional convention or rewrite to amend it. We just need to amend it to stop corporations from buying, then destroying, our democracy.
I agree with you Mary Pat. Using the idea of nation rebuilding as a foundation, I wrote a paper in 2015 in favor of reestablishing the values base for the nation, suggesting we needed to come together with a contemporary and more dynamic constitution. I thought it a healthy exercise in pursuit of ensuring the democracy we professed to love. I shared it with five people I respected. It died the appropriate death it deserved. That experience reminded me of the Baptist fault that fits in this train of thought about convening a constitutional convention. If we can't get unanimity in ideology, start over, build a new church, and work the slow path to where ideological differences divide, rather than unite. The hard work is adjusting to differences, to make progress, not to create the most perfect and unchangeable way to live together is the productive direction for our messy nation. HCR certainly makes clear that opening up a convention to update the Constitutional would prove as ill-advised as did that which occurred in 1787; the damned compromises we now live with. Amend, yes, and recognize that our constitution is not divine scripture, but the product of it's time, brilliant though the idea is that all men are created equal and equal under the laws of a just nation.
Yes, I think Citizens United is the crux of the problem and why we are losing our democratic republic. However, the alternative to a Convention of States is the Congress presenting the amendment and most of them have been corrupted by the money allowed by Citizens United. It is like asking a fox to put a lock on the hen house.
True that. But to my knowledge there has been more push for a Congressional Convention from the right than the left. We are back to un-corrupting government a school board seat and a County Commissioner position at a time. Have to re-read the last third of David Pepper's book again ("Laboratories of Democracy"). And EVERYONE ON THIS SITE NEEDS TO FOLLOW CATHY'S LEAD: JOIN AND BE ACTIVE IN THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS!
"We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling and other related cases, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights." Yes! BUT, we do not need a Constitutional convention or rewrite to amend it. We just need to amend it to stop corporations from buying, then destroying, our democracy.
I agree with you Mary Pat. Using the idea of nation rebuilding as a foundation, I wrote a paper in 2015 in favor of reestablishing the values base for the nation, suggesting we needed to come together with a contemporary and more dynamic constitution. I thought it a healthy exercise in pursuit of ensuring the democracy we professed to love. I shared it with five people I respected. It died the appropriate death it deserved. That experience reminded me of the Baptist fault that fits in this train of thought about convening a constitutional convention. If we can't get unanimity in ideology, start over, build a new church, and work the slow path to where ideological differences divide, rather than unite. The hard work is adjusting to differences, to make progress, not to create the most perfect and unchangeable way to live together is the productive direction for our messy nation. HCR certainly makes clear that opening up a convention to update the Constitutional would prove as ill-advised as did that which occurred in 1787; the damned compromises we now live with. Amend, yes, and recognize that our constitution is not divine scripture, but the product of it's time, brilliant though the idea is that all men are created equal and equal under the laws of a just nation.
Yes, I think Citizens United is the crux of the problem and why we are losing our democratic republic. However, the alternative to a Convention of States is the Congress presenting the amendment and most of them have been corrupted by the money allowed by Citizens United. It is like asking a fox to put a lock on the hen house.
True that. But to my knowledge there has been more push for a Congressional Convention from the right than the left. We are back to un-corrupting government a school board seat and a County Commissioner position at a time. Have to re-read the last third of David Pepper's book again ("Laboratories of Democracy"). And EVERYONE ON THIS SITE NEEDS TO FOLLOW CATHY'S LEAD: JOIN AND BE ACTIVE IN THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS!
Did last week
Exactly. They are way ahead of any reasoned effort