Congress: Pass a Constitutional Amendment saying Corporations are not People.

Congress, and then the states, should pass an Amendment to the US Constitution that sets up a separate status for Corporations as business organizations--not as Persons. Corporations cannot vote. They cannot be put in jail for breaking laws. They cannot serve in the military or in public office. Yet, they have the financial strength to overwhelm ordinary citizens when it comes to representation in government, in court and in our campaigns. We risk the erosion of our rights as individual citizens and the ultimate transformation of our government to a government not of the People, but of the Corporations. There is a significant amount of case law giving corporations a number of rights, and any amendment should be carefully written to keep what's good and eliminate the preferential treatment Corporations have over ordinary citizens that is bad. Members of Congress, please pass a Constitutional Amendment that clarifies that Corporations do not have all the rights that the People of the United States do, because they are not people and cannot fulfill all of the same responsibilities that Citizens of the United States must fulfill.