To: The United States House of Representatives and The United States Senate
Corporations Are Not People!
In 1819, the Supreme Court decided, in a case entitled Dartmouth College v. Woodward that corporations had the same rights as people. That decision has been at the root of bad law, allowing corporations to run roughshod over our democracy, using their almost unlimited money to fund anything they want in government, and leaving ordinary citizens with very little voice in our own government. It's time for this to stop.
Congress is meant to serve the people -- not corporations. Corporations should have some rights, and deserve to have those rights protected, but they should NOT have the same rights as individual human beings. A corporation is not a human being, and to pretend it is for legal purposes is to make a travesty of the law.
Congress must pass a law overturning corporate personhood. That is the only way to turn American democracy back over to real human beings.
Why is this important?
In 1819, the Supreme Court decided, in a case entitled Dartmouth College v. Woodward that corporations had the same rights as people. That decision has been at the root of a lot of the more recent rulings which allow corporations to run roughshod over our democracy, using their almost unlimited money to fund anything they want in government, and leaving ordinary citizens with very little voice in our own government. It's time for this to stop.