Title: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to clarify the authority of Congress and the States to regulate corporations, limited liability companies or other corporate entities established by the laws of any State, the United States, or any foreign state.
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

Summary:
Constitutional Amendment
This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment declaring that: (1) the rights protected by the Constitution are intended to be the rights of natural persons; (2) the words "people," "person," or "citizen" as used in the Constitution do not include corporations, limited liability companies, or other corporate entities established by the laws of any state, the United States, or any foreign state; and (3) such corporate entities are subject to such regulation as the people, through their elected state and federal representatives, deem reasonable and are otherwise consistent with the powers of Congress and the states.
Nothing in the amendment shall be construed to limit the rights of freedom of speech, the press, exercise of religion, association, and all such other unalienable rights of the people.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 88 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 88

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
     clarify the authority of Congress and the States to regulate 
 corporations, limited liability companies or other corporate entities 
established by the laws of any State, the United States, or any foreign 
                                 state.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 10, 2017

  Mr. McGovern (for himself, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Langevin, Mr. 
Welch, Mr. Keating, Mr. DeFazio, Mr. Takano, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Capuano, 
  Mr. Cooper, Mr. Grijalva, and Mr. Loebsack) submitted the following 
 joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
     clarify the authority of Congress and the States to regulate 
 corporations, limited liability companies or other corporate entities 
established by the laws of any State, the United States, or any foreign 
                                 state.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled   (two-thirds of each House 
concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be 
valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when 
ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States:

                              ``Article--

    ``Section 1. We the people who ordain and establish this 
Constitution intend the rights protected by this Constitution to be the 
rights of natural persons.
    ``Section 2. The words people, person, or citizen as used in this 
Constitution do not include corporations, limited liability companies 
or other corporate entities established by the laws of any State, the 
United States, or any foreign state, and such corporate entities are 
subject to such regulation as the people, through their elected State 
and Federal representatives, deem reasonable and are otherwise 
consistent with the powers of Congress and the States under this 
Constitution.
    ``Section 3. Nothing contained herein shall be construed to limit 
the people's rights of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, free 
exercise of religion, freedom of association and all such other rights 
of the people, which rights are unalienable.''.
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