Suggested Constitutional Amendment on Campaign Finance
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In matters of electoral rights and campaign financing freedoms, no corporation or registered multi-party organization will be afforded the specific electoral rights afforded individual citizens under this Constitution.
(As the Supreme Court deliberates on the issue of whether corporations and unions should have unlimited spending power in efforts meant to influence elections, it is necessary to consider the Constitutional problems being considered.
Some conservative justices prefer to assign to corporations the rights of individual citizens, judging that only in this way can all people be treated equally before the law. Such a judicial philosophy is, for some, a kind of pro-corporate judicial activism; but for others, it is rooted in Constitutional principles.
If a ruling that favors unlimited spending were to be handed down, laws like the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law would be called into question.
It would then be necessary to contemplate an amendment to the Constitution that would specifically challenge the judicial inference that says corporations have the rights of individual citizenship, a philosophy Thomas Jefferson believed would eventually erode real individual rights out of existence.
The above text is offered as a sample of what could be the language of a simple, clear, targeted Constitutional amendment designed to challenge that line of judicial intervention, and protect the rights of real individuals.)
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