Boulder council will consider referendum on 'corporate personhood'

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The Boulder City Council early Wednesday morning agreed that the city attorney should draft potential ballot language for a referendum that would call for an end to unlimited corporate spending in politics.

The referendum would ask voters to protest the Citizens United decision last year by the U.S. Supreme Court. That case removed limits on corporate and union spending on issue ads.

The majority opinion in the 5-4 decision was based in part on the idea that corporations, legally, are people with the same First Amendment rights as individuals, and that money is a form of speech.

The national group called Move to Amend is trying to pass a constitutional amendment saying that corporations are not people and money is not speech.

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"Only human beings are entitled to the inalienable rights guaranteed by the constitution," she said.

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_18511487

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1. K&R

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2. To the best of my knowledge, no other country has this abomination.

As has been mentioned before, our Constitution starts out with "We the people..."

It is our government. WE come first, not some greedy, profits first, business.

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3. what other groups of people are not "persons" either?

Would the same legal arguments not apply to labor unions? How about PAC's?