The 28th Amendment..Fact AND Fiction..

[BrklynLiberal]

http://www.amendment-28.com

The US Supreme Court's recent ruling in Citizens United v. FEC makes it clear that traditional legislation can no longer serve as a tool for limiting the influence of private campaign donations on our elections. If this issue is going to be successfully addressed, it will have to be at a higher level -- at the level of the US Constitution.

The constitutional amendment proposed herein (click the right arrow) would limit the total amount of money than can be spent in a given Federal general election. This approach puts an end to the spiraling cost of campaigns, the need for sitting Congressmen and Senators to constantly raise money, and the outsized influence of major campaign contributors.

The amendment’s author, Neal Rechtman, has been thinking about and crafting its language since 2004, when he began writing his novel The 28th Amendment – a fictional account of an effort to reform campaign financing through a constitutional amendment (published in 2007; cf. left side of this page).

http://www.amendment-28.com/final/index.cfm