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Sun Jan-24-10 10:12 AM
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| Elections and who finances them |
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Private financing = government representing private interests
Public financing = government representing public interestsMake corporate person-hood illegal. http://reclaimdemocracy.org/personhood/Publicly finance Congressional elections. http://www.publicampaign.org/ :patriot: ---
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Sun Jan-24-10 10:25 AM
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| 1. This SCOTUS would probably find publicly financed elections unconstitutional. |
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Edited on Sun Jan-24-10 10:27 AM by RUMMYisFROSTED
Not to mention, even with PF'ed elections, the corporate ads would still continue under the current ruling. I'm not sure what is gained.
ETA: That's why this decision is so fucked. Publicly financed elections, formerly the answer, is now potentially meaningless.
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Sun Jan-24-10 10:30 AM
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| 2. exactly why corporations... |
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...need to be removed from "people" status. http://reclaimdemocracy.org/personhood/--- |
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Sun Jan-24-10 10:35 AM
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| 3. The SCOTUS just ruled that they are. Only an Amendment would change that. |
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(Or a different court in the future)
Having a Constitutional Convention opens the door for many unseemly things to happen to the Constitution not related to corp. personhood.
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