Money in Politics CBA
Our nation is becoming more and more politically divided every day. The political parties are polarized; the congress is in gridlock and people are questioning the efficiency of the government. The approval rating of the congress is now around 10%, one of the lowest in history and the majority of the nation believes that no significant legislation has been pass in last few years to impact their lives positively. The liberals and the conservatives hardly agrees on anything, from the tax rates to the immigration, but one issue that majority of the nation agrees on is that the influence of money is too much in politics. According to a poll conducted by the New York Times in 2015, 84% of the respondents express the concern …show more content…
Fortunately, there are many organizations such as Public Citizen, Wolf-Pac, Common Cause, Issue One are fighting to reduce the influence of money in politics. One of the way to be involve in this process in to take part in barnstorming tours. Writing to local congressman by losing the voters interest can also help the cause. Most elected officials are dependent of big donor money to stay in office, but if small donations can bring sufficient amount of money to run a campaign, the politicians do not have bow their heads to big donors anymore. Therefore, people can reduce the influence of big money by contributing small amount of money to the candidates of their choice. Wolf PAC is a non-partisan political action committee with the goal of ending corporate personhood and publicly financing all elections in the country by adding a 28th amendment to the Constitution. This organization has more than 20,000 volunteers working in all 50 state. The strategy is to call for a convention of the States which is outlined in Article V of the constitution. Volunteering in this organization to pass resolution calling for convention in local level will bring a change to the current campaign finance system of the country. People should also be involved in organizations like Common Cause which also fighting to bring an end to corporate …show more content…
The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution gives a clear guideline of the citizenship, “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” This definition of citizenship makes corporation personhood incompatible, therefore, invalidating the notation that corporations’ speech is protected by the Constitution. The Supreme Court previously denied the right against self-incrimination, mentioned in the Fifth Amendment, for corporations on the basis that it can be exercised only on an individual basis. The same argument can be made for the First Amendment rights as well. Nowhere in the Constitution declares any right to corporations. The framers of the Constitution were aware of the need for constitutional changes in future. The Bill of Rights themselves are extension of the Constitution. The founders of the nation knew that changes will be necessary in future and therefore, the Constitution allow different ways to add or remove amendments to the constitution. The Article V of the constitution allows “the Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution”. The other methods to bring changes to the Constitution is
Our nation is becoming more and more politically divided every day. The political parties are polarized; the congress is in gridlock and people are questioning the efficiency of the government. The approval rating of the congress is now around 10%, one of the lowest in history and the majority of the nation believes that no significant legislation has been pass in last few years to impact their lives positively. The liberals and the conservatives hardly agrees on anything, from the tax rates to the immigration, but one issue that majority of the nation agrees on is that the influence of money is too much in politics. According to a poll conducted by the New York Times in 2015, 84% of the respondents express the concern …show more content…
Fortunately, there are many organizations such as Public Citizen, Wolf-Pac, Common Cause, Issue One are fighting to reduce the influence of money in politics. One of the way to be involve in this process in to take part in barnstorming tours. Writing to local congressman by losing the voters interest can also help the cause. Most elected officials are dependent of big donor money to stay in office, but if small donations can bring sufficient amount of money to run a campaign, the politicians do not have bow their heads to big donors anymore. Therefore, people can reduce the influence of big money by contributing small amount of money to the candidates of their choice. Wolf PAC is a non-partisan political action committee with the goal of ending corporate personhood and publicly financing all elections in the country by adding a 28th amendment to the Constitution. This organization has more than 20,000 volunteers working in all 50 state. The strategy is to call for a convention of the States which is outlined in Article V of the constitution. Volunteering in this organization to pass resolution calling for convention in local level will bring a change to the current campaign finance system of the country. People should also be involved in organizations like Common Cause which also fighting to bring an end to corporate …show more content…
The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution gives a clear guideline of the citizenship, “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” This definition of citizenship makes corporation personhood incompatible, therefore, invalidating the notation that corporations’ speech is protected by the Constitution. The Supreme Court previously denied the right against self-incrimination, mentioned in the Fifth Amendment, for corporations on the basis that it can be exercised only on an individual basis. The same argument can be made for the First Amendment rights as well. Nowhere in the Constitution declares any right to corporations. The framers of the Constitution were aware of the need for constitutional changes in future. The Bill of Rights themselves are extension of the Constitution. The founders of the nation knew that changes will be necessary in future and therefore, the Constitution allow different ways to add or remove amendments to the constitution. The Article V of the constitution allows “the Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution”. The other methods to bring changes to the Constitution is