On May 26, 125 years ago, greedy corporations became "legal persons." Please help fight against

this. 125,000 petitions are needed to begin procedures to amend this law.

An infamous and devastating date is May 26, 1886, when Supreme Court clerk J.C. Bancroft Davis, former president of the Newburgh and New York Railway Company, inserted a headnote to the United States Reports pertaining to the Court's May 10 decision in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company. The note set a precedent and effectively established corporations as legal persons entitled to the same rights as living, breathing persons under the 14th Amendment.

The destruction of our democracy at the hands of greedy corporations is clearly evident. From the environment, energy, and healthcare to jobs, education, and the economy, the greed of big multi-national corporations is laying waste to the American dream—and our democracy.

The 125th anniversary of the Santa Clara Railroad case is upon us. We hope you'll mark this anniversary by signing the petition at Move to Amend.org. Our shared goal is to collect 125,000 signatures for the 125th anniversary of corporate personhood. We must come together to reclaim our democracy for living, breathing people by eliminating corporate personhood through a Constitutional amendment.

Whatever the problem, at its root you'll always find a corporation standing between "we the people" and the solution. If we are to "secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and posterity," then we must put an end corporate personhood.

Please sign the Motion to Amend.

http://movetoamend.org/

and raising awareness about this error that became "precedent".
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More likely, he and his corporate buddies conspired to do it for the very reason of establishing Corporate Personhood.

crooked then as today. The only difference is that there probably are more
criminals holding high office today -- hence the big mess we are in. This
is direct cause and effect.

And we keep on electing more criminals to high office -- Dems, too, but not
nearly as many as the GOP.

Constitution, begun by a greedy corporatist 125 years ago, which says that a corpration
is to be treated in the same way as a breathing, living person. Just look at the
corporate abuses of the past 125 years in oppressing the average citizen.

Not many people in this forum thus far seem to be too interested in helping to
make legal changes in that article of the 14th Amendment of our Constitution,
which would benefit all of the American people.

of a law in the Constitution.

kick it up, so that many more others will also get to read it, and help the number
of petitions to go way beyond the 125,000 necessary to start the process of amending
this law of the Constitution.