Citizens United

Warning that “American democracy in endangered,” Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday proposed a constitutional amendment to overturn a Supreme Court ruling that allowed unrestricted and secret campaign spending by corporations on U.S. elections. The first constitutional amendment ever proposed by Sanders during his two decades in Congress would reverse the narrow 5-to-4 ruling in Citizens United vs. the Federal Elections Commission.

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http://storyofcitizensunited.org —- Season Two launches on March 1st with The Story of Citizens United v. FEC, an exploration of the inordinate power that corporations exercise in our democracy.

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Source: The Story of Stuff

First corporation runs for congress with slogan Corporations are people too

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Murray Hill, Inc. is a Maryland corporation and a public relations and advertising firm that announced at the end of January, 2010 that it intends to run as a Republican for Maryland’s 8th Congressional district. The company’s announcement that it will run for office came after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark January, 2010 ruling in the Citizens United case that corporations have the same political and free-speech rights as U.S. citizens. The company is selling mugs and T-Shirts with the political slogan, “Corporations are people, too!”

Source: Sourcewatch

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