Reclaim Democracy for People!

END Corporate "Personhood" and SuperPACs - Amend the Constitution

CITIZEN ADVISORY PETITION

TO THE SAN JUAN COUNTY COUNCIL NOT a formal Citizen Initiative Text of this proposal is on the reverse side. To the San Juan County Council:

PLEASE RETURN signed petitions to: San Juan's Money Out of Politics (MooP) 219 Straits View Dr. Friday Harbor, WA 98250 For pick-up by a San Juan MooP volunteer, call: Orcas: 376-5624 - San Juan 370-5401 - Lopez 468-3221

We The People, residents of San Juan County, Washington, hereby request a Resolution, to urge the Washington State Legislature and the United States Congress to amend the United States Constitution to clearly state that: (1) Corporations are not human beings, and only human beings are endowed with Constitutional rights. (2) Contributions and expenditures for political purposes are not Constitutionally-protected speech. Therefore regulating political contributions and spending is not equivalent to limiting political speech. (3) Congress and the States shall have the power to regulate contributions and expenditures for campaigns and ballot measures, and to require public disclosure of the sources of such contributions and expenditures. We ask for the enactment of a Resolution by which the San Juan County Council shall call upon the Washington Legislature and the U.S. Congress to amend the Constitution with provisions as outlined above and printed on the reverse.

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Residents of San Juan County Call for a Constitutional Amendment to Limit Corporate Political Spending and to Regulate Campaign Financing
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A RESOLUTION URGING OUR STATE AND FEDERAL REPRESENTATIVES TO ADOPT A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT LIMITING THE RIGHTS DEFINED THEREIN TO NATURAL PERSONS ONLY, IN ORDER TO PERMIT ENACTMENT OF REASONABLE LIMITATIONS ON POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS

BE IT RESOLVED by the County Council of San Juan County, Washington, as follows: The County of San Juan, Washington hereby includes in its 2012 Federal and State Legislative Priorities support for a constitutional amendment ensuring that artificial entities, such as corporations, trade unions and similar organizations, are not entitled to the entirety of protections or rights of people, so as to specifically ensure that (1) spending by such entities to influence the electoral process is not a form of constitutionally protected speech and (2) such limitations as Congress, as well state and local jurisdictions, may choose to enact to restrict such expenditures, by either artificial entities or individuals, are legal and viable under the Constitution.