Democracy Unincorporated is a Colorado based citizens group that will take the Amendments to the Constitution and Bill of Rights to the people in several front-range cities in Colorado in the 2012 General Election (see Declaration and Amendments below).

We will select several cities or a county where the likelihood of success is great, and put before the voters the Initiative for Amending the Constitution and enhancing the Bill of Rights. The objective is to have the City Councils put these Amendments into their Charters, requiring the Mayors / County officials to present the Amendments to the State and US Representatives, State and US Senators, and Governor for their respective jurisdictions.

Our efforts will be intensely grass roots; we will need people to walk, talk and distribute literature to their neighbors on this most critical issue of our time. We will need assistance in other areas as well: artistic, web design, administrative needs, and more. Please sign up to stay informed or help in this effort here: http://www.democracyunincorporated.com/Contact.html
 

We will collaborate with other citizen organizations on the language of the Amendment(s) and the Ballot Initiative, and use the resulting documents and strategies as a template for other cities around the nation, until there is such an overwhelming response that a National Constitutional amendment can no longer be denied by State or the National Governments.

We feel that if the effort were to be attempted at the State level alone, it would meet with enormous floods of corporate money attempting to defeat it. So we are committed to taking it to the streets, one city or one county at a time.

Generally, the Initiative will address the following issues and in this general format:

There will be two general sections:

1.       Declaration of Grievances against Corporate Rule in America today, in style and language similar to the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Grievances will establish 

a.          the undeniable Rule of Corporations. It will give ample instances of such rule.

b.          that a system of governance driven by profit is counter to a government that “derives their just powers from the consent of the governed”

c.          It will then list the “long train of abuses” of the rule of corporations:

i.              How the corporate pursuit of profit alone has corrupted the political system by bribes, kickbacks, and campaign financing;

ii.             How the largest corporations have destroyed many ecological systems in the nation; poisoning, maiming, and destroying the lives and livelihoods of countless citizens;

iii.            How corporate consumer culture has driven the planet into a state of ecological crisis;

iv.           How corporations have thwarted the efforts of citizens to protect and defend their interests before congress;

v.            How corporations have made our laws, fashioning them according to their own private interests to the detriment of the people – in health care policy, in bankruptcy law, in mortgage and banking laws and (de)regulation;

vi.           And other abuses yet unmentioned.

d.      It will establish the right of the People to “abolish [corporate rule], and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness”.

2.       The Amendment(s) to the Constitution

a.       That the rights articulated in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration are granted to human beings alone, not corporations.

b.      That only persons are entitled to participate in the political process. And since corporations are not persons, they are banned from any and all attempts to monetarily influence the people’s representatives and prohibited from any involvement in the writing of our laws.

c.       That the equality mentioned in the founding documents is intended to support the essential democratic notion of One Person, One Vote.

d.      That the Constitution guarantees all persons Equality of Access to their representatives, regardless of race, religion, sex, or status of wealth.

e.      That the Constitution rejects all systems of governance based upon wealth privilege.

All of this, of course, is subject to revision. But the points written herein will be included, even if the language is not the same. There may be other amendment points that deserve consideration. Your comments and suggestions are valued and welcome. Email democracyUnincorporated here: mailto: Michael@democracyUnincorporated.com