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John Dinglers 28th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America The 28th Amendment is intended to remove

private money from political campaigns. Introduction Premises: 1. A corporate personhood is destructive; It devalues the worth of a esh and blood person. 2. e use of private wealth in election campaigns corrupts. 3. e elimination of private wealth stems corruption. 4. e mandate for the use of public wealth eliminates bribery and the selling of favors. Method: e 28th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America must deny corporate personhood and prohibit the use of private wealth, and mandates the use of public wealth in all public election campaigns. Scope: e 28th Amendment is binding on candidates running for oce in city, county, state, and national elections. Denitions: 1. Private wealth: Any form of valuable holdings that can be commanded and controlled in whole or in part (i.e., media, media exposure, land, employees, social connections, endorsements, money, crude oil and natural gas deposits and wells, water deposits, religious broadcasters, stocks, gifts, vocal or written promises, loans, at currency, metals, mineral rights, absolutions, what else?) by a private individual or group. 2. Corporation: An articial entity whose lifespan is of limited duration, whose beginning and ending is based on the positive contribution it makes to society as determined by each state of the Union.

e 28th Amendment
Section 1

Only living, breathing, natural human beings can qualify to be a candidate for public oce. Each candidate, or surrogate person or organization, shall be prohibited from soliciting, accepting, and using private wealth to promote or to defeat anyone's candidacy for public oce. (Explanation: A surrogate may be a non-prot, a law rm, a religion, or any provider of so-called "soft money") Section 2

A corporation, including any entity not wholly of esh and blood such as a robot, a cyborg, a computer, a computational device is each not a human person, thus has neither inalienable Constitutional rights, nor any extra-Constitutional rights. (Explanation: May eliminate confusion between a non-human entity and a human person) Section 3

Election campaigns shall be publicly-funded in their entirety, for a period of four weeks in October, with funds limited to no more than the average wage of a worker times a multiple of 28.

(Explanation: Minimum wage worker: $20,000yr x 084 = 1,680,000 $20,000yr x 280 = $5,600,000, or $20,000yr x 560 = 112,000,000 or Public Nurse: $70,000 x 280 = $19,600,000. Are these too much waste of taxpayer dollar? e amt. should be tied to a salary in a helping/healing profession to emphasize remediation, or a laborer to give primacy to labor and inferiority to capital. e 28 helps to evoke the 28th Amendment) Section 4

Congress shall designate a publicly-nanced (or bind employers to nance), legal public 24 hr. holiday for the express purposes to vote, and for non-political, secular festivities. (Explanation: A festive mood would invite while big gubmnt, being naturally dour, discourages) Section 5

e public nancing of election campaigns shall not be denied. (Explanation: A political faction in the judicial, executive, or legislative branch could otherwise block funding) Section 6

Neither this amendment nor a future amendment shall recognize personal wealth to be protected speech. (Explanation: (To prevent a branch of the US gov. from ascribing rights to corporate entities. I need help to esh this out) Section 7

e 28th Amendment shall apply, with no exceptions, to all US citizens. (Explanation: "All citizens" includes either freely residing or those incarcerated inside or outside the US) Section 8

Lobbying by corporate entities, and/or their representatives, of elected ocials, is allowed only in public fora, provided freely by all media entities, for three months out of a 12 month year, as determined by the US Congress, and is prohibited in private. All lobbying text documents shall be conspicuously published for all to easily view and easily hear at public expense. (Explanation: Public transparency empowers a free citizenry while roadblocks to access and secrecy empowers corporate government.)

Section 9

e content of all Congressional legislative bills shall be initiated and composed by the legislator, all nongovernmental inuencers listed in the bill and published all to easily view and easily hear at public expense. (Explanation: is should eliminate undue inuence by corporate barons and dukes.) Section 10

Public ocials shall engage in "reverse lobbying," learning about the more needy constituency, residing in reasonably decrepit parts of society, yearly, for three non-consecutive months, using normal public transportation only. (Explanation: An attempt to moderate privilege, connections, and wealth by directly experiencing being a public servant living among masters) Section 11

All assistive technology, media, or transportation entity are prohibited from favoring one candidate, or one candidate's views, over another, and must provide equal time and equal facilities. (Explanation: is may satisfy the needs of a fairness doctrine) Section 12

Congress shall establish a Department of Conscation (inspiree by Matt Snyders idea). Every ten years, the Department shall conscate all private wealth above the two-thousandtwentyeight times the lowest national salary of a Fireghter trainee, to not be returned to the treasury, but to be disbursed, untaxed, to provide comprehensive health care to indigents. (Explanation: $30,000/yr x 2828 = $84,840,000. Anything above is conscated & disbursed)

Notes: ere are several forms of esh and blood human being popularly recognized in a nation: 1. Human: A fundamental identity 2. Person: A borderless human traveler 3. Citizen: A possessor of validating documents 4. Consumer: A spender of wealth To which categories of being does the US Constitution apply? John Dingler, MFA johndinglerart@gmail.com Published: January 20, 2013

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