Abolish Corporate Personhood

The Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision declared that corporations have First Amendment free speech rights and can spend unlimited money in elections. This was not the first time - corporate personhood began with an 1886 case, Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, where a court reporter's note (not the actual decision) claimed corporations were persons under the 14th Amendment. This was a lie that became precedent. The 14th Amendment was written to grant rights to freed slaves, not corporations. Yet courts used it to give corporations constitutional protections while actual human beings were denied those same rights. Citizens United supercharged this corruption, unleashing billions in corporate money to buy politicians, write legislation, and rig the system. Since 2010, corporate and dark money spending in elections has exploded. Billionaires and corporations now effectively select candidates and determine policy. This is not democracy - it is oligarchy. Corporations are legal fictions created by state charters for specific business purposes. They are not human beings. They cannot vote, cannot serve on juries, cannot be imprisoned. They are profit-maximizing entities with no conscience, no mortality, and no loyalty to any nation or community. Granting them constitutional rights is absurd and destructive. We must pass a constitutional amendment explicitly stating that constitutional rights belong only to natural human beings, not corporations, and that money is not speech. This is the only way to permanently end corporate control of our government.