Moorestown Democrats

Campaign Financing: Fixing Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.

Congress is going through all sorts of contortions trying to look like they are fixing the Supreme Courts' decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. New reporting requirements are being touted as the fix to the sale of elections to corporate interests. They are not. Don't let yourself be fooled.

There is a fix to Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. It is easy. It is simple. It will not be done. The fix is to end the legal fiction that corporations are persons. All it would take to end the legal fictions is the following legislation:

Corporations are not persons under the laws of the United States. Corporations are granted the following limited rights; 1. the right to sue and be sued in contract and tort; 2. the right to own real and personal property; 3. the right to enter into contracts with persons and other corporations and to be bound by contracts; 4. the right to truthfully advertise the goods and services produced or provided by the corporation to persons and other corporations. Corporations, their officers, owners, and employees may be held liable for the acts of the Corporation where warranted under the Civil and Criminal laws of the United States and the individual States, Territories, and Districts of the United States. Corporations shall have no rights not enunciated herein.

It really is that simple.