Comments on: The Best Government the 1% Can Buy: Is Reversing Citizens United or Corporate Personhood Enough?

By: Shannon Biggs

Shannon Biggs — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:20:18 +0000

thanks for reposting!

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By: Shannon Biggs

Shannon Biggs — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:38:31 +0000

Dear Don,
Sorry for the delayed response, but I think the best place to go to answer your excellent question is from the mouths of the founders themselves. Madison took nearly verbatim notes during the closed door convention, where the Constitution was drafted. its over 700 pages long, and was not released until all the authors were dead, because it very clearly and openly discusses their desire to create a Constitution that would protect larger property and commerce, rather than rights and liberty. There are many good other sources for this, as well. I also suggest reading some of the anti-federalists papers written at the time of ratification, which also talks about the “compromise”of the Bill of Rights (which is very different than the Constitution). Happy to talk more about this, email me anytime and thanks for reading and writing a response!

By: Shannon Biggs

Shannon Biggs — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:33:46 +0000

Dear Karen,

Looking forward to sharing more content and work together. Thanks!

By: Tex Dworkin

Tex Dworkin — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:05:11 +0000

Don,
Thanks for your blog comment. The blog author Shannon is in Rio now for the Earth Summit. She’ll be able to respond to your comment once she is back if not sooner, since internet access is undependable where she is staying.
Thanks for taking the time to comment!
Tex

By: Karen Swift

Karen Swift — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 06:11:13 +0000

Great article Shannon! prime analogy to whack a mole–on point visual to show how our system is structured to temporarily displace problems… The community rightsPDX group is definitely sharing this as a summary of this movement:)

By: Don Steinke

Don Steinke — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 00:03:39 +0000

I’m leading a Community Rights group in Vancouver Washington. You claim the constitution was designed from the beginning to provide a government of and by the 1%.
It is true that only white male property owners were allowed to vote at the time, but the constitution doesn’t specify that and by 1839, the requirement for property ownership in order to vote, was gone.
I recognize that the founders didn’t want the rabble to vote, but the constitution doesn’t say that.
The founders did not include a Bill of Rights because that was left to the states and the states already had enumerated civil rights.
I’m not convinced the constitution was designed to be for the 1%. What am I missing?

By: Tex Dworkin

Tex Dworkin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:59:07 +0000

Thanks Shannon for the great questions, and the great post!