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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 03:17 PM
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60. This attempts to accomplish two things
First, assure that the executive branch is accountable to the people and their representatives by incorporating it into the legislative branch. The independent executive branch in the present Constitution has more than once become a threat to individual liberty in recent years. In my view, that indicates the problem is systemic and therefore needs an overhaul.

Second, the above document recognizes that private, non-governmental power may also be a threat to the liberty and welfare of the people and allows government to act as a check against it. Artificial personhood is prohibited. The idea that corporations are artificial persons with the rights of a citizen, which is absurd to begin with, is explicitly dismissed.

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