Are we simply stuck with politics as usual, or can we change?

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11. In both California and Oregon, the state Constitutions are all about people power.

Yet here's the problem: the state legislatures and local entities continually take away our rights by passing laws that should not be passed.

And few individuals have the monetary resources to challenge some legal action taken against themselves. Also, finding a truly aware "Constitutional " lawyer is very difficult.

One of the things about any legal provisions enacted inside a community is that the entity that wanted to stifle the situation has to come into that particular county and basically make the legal announcement that they do not care for the US Constitution, or the state Constitution either. Talk about bad press.

Most corporations do not want any headlines pointing that fact out.

Which is why, for instance, the anti-industrialized pig farming community in PA was able to dissuade the industrialized pig farmer from coming into their community.