8754-14 Support constitutional amendment

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RESOLUTION NO. 8754 -14 BY: § H4ffR% Andaroo t, Bullock, �gaeifgran ;i:L,l Ilarx, Nowlin, O'Leary. A RESOLUTION calling on legislators at the state and federal level and other communi- ties and jurisdictions to support an amendment to the United States Constitution that would abol- ish corporate personhood and abolish the doctrine of money as speech. WHEREAS, government of, by, and for the people has long been a cherished American value, and We The People's inalienable right to self - govern is guaranteed in the U.S. Constitu- tion and the Declaration of Independence; and WHEREAS, free and fair elections are essential to democracy and effective self - governance; and WHEREAS, persons are rightfully recognized as human beings whose essential needs in- clude clean air, clean water, and safe and secure food; and WHEREAS, corporations are entirely human -made legal entities created by express per- mission of We The People and our government; and WHEREAS, corporations can exist in perpetuity, can exist simultaneously in many na- tions at once, need only profit for survival, and exist solely through the legal charter imposed by the government of We The People; and WHEREAS, the great wealth of large corporations allows them to wield coercive force of law to overpower human beings and communities, thus denying We The People's exercise of our Constitutional rights; and WHEREAS, corporations are not mentioned in the Constitution, and We The People have never granted constitutional rights to corporations, nor have we decreed that corporations have authority that exceeds the authority of We The People of the United States; and WHEREAS, interpretation of the U.S. Constitution by appointed Supreme Court justices to include corporations in the term "persons" has long denied We The People's exercise of self - governance by endowing corporations with constitutional protections intended for We The Peo- ple; and WHEREAS, the judicial bestowal of civil and political rights upon corporations can usurp basic human and constitutional rights guaranteed to human persons, and also empowers corporations to sue municipal and state governments for adopting taws that violate "corporate rights" even when those laws serve to protect and defend the rights of human persons and com- munities; and