On December 20, a Montana lower state court struck down an initiative passed in 2012 that orders Montana legislators to work for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United v Federal Election Commission. The recent Montana case is Rickert v McCulloch, Lewis and Clark County, cdv-2012-1003.
The initiative said, in part, “Montana’s congressional delegation is charged with proposing a joint resolution offering an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that accomplishes the following: (a) overturns the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v FEC; (b) establishes that corporations are not human beings with constitutional rights; (c) establishes that campaign contributions or expenditures by corporations, whether to candidates or ballot issues, may be prohibited by a political body at any level of government; and (d) accomplishes the goals of Montanans in achieving a level playing field in election spending.”
The recent decision depends on a 1984 Montana Supreme Court opinion, State ex rel Harper v Waltermire, which struck down an initiative that ordered Montana legislators to work for a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The recent decision upholds the part of the initiative that says that the voters find that “unlimited corporate donations creates a dominating impact on the Montana political process and inevitably minimizes the impact of individual Montana citizens.” However, it should be noted that Citizens United v FEC did not hold that corporations may make contributions to candidates; it said they can make independent expenditures.
Pure proportional representation (PR) in electing a company’s board is not only possible, but the All Party System Co. is doing it now.
Check out the newest development in corporate democracy;
–A board of directors where there is balance between the ten “Worker BoDs” and the holders of common stock “Donor BoDs”, both sets of ten elected by using ranked choice voting, Hagenbach-Bischoff method.
–A five-member executive which is subject to a 365-day “vote of confidence” for year-round accountability.
–Five Founding Executives who are the same names as the USA Parliament’s executives – three prime ministers and two secretaries.
We’re now accepting bids for shares from outsiders for the January 6th 2014 private placement memorandum and as a board member you’ll be invited to vote on all the agenda items on January 5th, 2014. One agenda item will result in 403,330 being placed on the market.
Join the unity and buy a share(s) for ten cents and be elected to one of the three remaining seats (of 30):
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We’re placing 40,433 shares valued at $4,043.30 (ten cents each) for sale soon after the board of directors (of whom you may be one) votes on January 5th, 2014.
The company is selling the best French Roast and Kona Coffees available and we’re having a “Coffee Party” and we’re conducting the private offering to raise capital for this exciting project.
We’re a new unity between business and political entities like nothing ever before.
Check out the new Virtual International Parliament:
http://www.international-parliament.org
If this is your cup of tea then keep up with the latest sales on the following web page URL:
http://usparliament.org/insider-bids.php
Should have been 403,330 shares at $40,333.
Prices are up 100% today and have doubled to $.20 (twenty cents) per unit. One unit gets the holder a seat of the BoD and there are three seats left:
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New bid in today by Texan Rhett Smith [First Freedom], ten shares for $3. (30 cents each) drives share price up 33% today.
http://usparliament.org/insider-bids.php
While I don’t support this particular initiative (I think the Supreme Court ruled correctly to protect the rights of corporations), I think that citizens should have some mechanism to propose amendments to the US Constitution. Perhaps a state constitution could authorize a state convention, either by petition, or automatically every so many years, whereby citizen delegates could meet and propose amendments to the US Constitution, which, if approved, would have the same legal effect as if a state legislature had submitted an amendment. Remember during the initial ratification of the US Constitution, states held conventions that submitted proposed amendments that became the Bill of Rights.