Title: People's Rights Amendment

Summary: Urging Congress to propose an amendment to the United States Constitution to restore the constitutional rights of the people to fair elections, etc.

Full Text:
WHEREAS, corporations are not people but instead are entities created by the law of states and nations, and WHEREAS, for the past three decades, a divided United States Supreme Court has erroneously transformed the First Amendment to the United States Constitution into a powerful tool for corporations seeking to evade and invalidate the people s laws, and WHEREAS, this misuse of the First Amendment for the benefit of corporations reached an extreme conclusion in the United States Supreme Court s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission,S.Ct (2010), and WHEREAS, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission overturned longstanding precedent restricting corporate expenditures to influence elections, and WHEREAS, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission,unleashed a torrent of corporate money in political processes in a manner unmatched by any campaign expenditure totals in United States history, and WHEREAS, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission,purports to invalidate state laws and even provisions of state constitutions restricting corporate expenditures to influence elections, and WHEREAS, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission,presents a serious and direct threat to our republican form of government, and WHEREAS, Article Vof the United States Constitution empowers and obligates the people and states of the United States of America to use the constitutional amendment process to correct those egregiously wrong decisions of the United States Supreme Court which go to the heart of our democracy, and WHEREAS, the people and states of the United States have strengthened the nation and preserved liberty and equality for all by using the amendment process throughout our history and by using the amendment process to reverse seven erroneous Supreme Court decisions, NOW, THEREFORE, Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida: That the Congress of the United States is urged to enact and send to the states for ratification a constitutional amendment to reverse Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission,and to restore the constitutional rights of the people to fair elections. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be dispatched to the President of the United States, to the President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and to each member of the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.