On May 26, 125 years ago, greedy corporations became "legal persons." Please help fight against

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this. 125,000 petitions are needed to begin procedures to amend this law.

An infamous and devastating date is May 26, 1886, when Supreme Court clerk J.C. Bancroft Davis, former president of the Newburgh and New York Railway Company, inserted a headnote to the United States Reports pertaining to the Court's May 10 decision in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company. The note set a precedent and effectively established corporations as legal persons entitled to the same rights as living, breathing persons under the 14th Amendment.

The destruction of our democracy at the hands of greedy corporations is clearly evident. From the environment, energy, and healthcare to jobs, education, and the economy, the greed of big multi-national corporations is laying waste to the American dream—and our democracy.

The 125th anniversary of the Santa Clara Railroad case is upon us. We hope you'll mark this anniversary by signing the petition at Move to Amend.org. Our shared goal is to collect 125,000 signatures for the 125th anniversary of corporate personhood. We must come together to reclaim our democracy for living, breathing people by eliminating corporate personhood through a Constitutional amendment.

Whatever the problem, at its root you'll always find a corporation standing between "we the people" and the solution. If we are to "secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and posterity," then we must put an end corporate personhood.

Please sign the Motion to Amend.

http://movetoamend.org/