The diverse group of attorneys, scholars, and public servants call the Citizens United decision “a serious danger to effective self-government of, for and by the American people.” The signatories urge Congress to consider a constitutional amendment to address that danger, noting that “most of the seventeen amendments adopted since the original Bill of Rights have corrected what the American people understood were obstacles to the equal rights of all people to participate in self-government on equal terms.”

You can read the joint press announcement of Free Speech For People and People For the American Way here.

You can view the full letter and all of the signatories here.

This letter demonstrates the growing momentum for a constitutional amendment to address the fabricated corporate rights doctrine upon which the Citizens United ruling rests. Join us at Free Speech For People to restore our Constitution and our democracy to the people.