Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing that the rights protected and extended by the Constitution are the rights of natural persons only.
Summary
This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment that would fundamentally change how constitutional rights are understood. Under this amendment, only natural persons (individual human beings) would have constitutional rights. Artificial entities such as corporations, unions, and other organizations would have no constitutional rights and could be regulated by federal, state, and local governments without constitutional protection.
The amendment would also address campaign finance by requiring governments to regulate, limit, or prohibit election contributions and expenditures to ensure equal access to the political process regardless of economic status. Any contributions and expenditures that remain permissible would need to be publicly disclosed. Additionally, the judiciary would be prohibited from interpreting the spending of money to influence elections as speech protected by the First Amendment.
As a constitutional amendment, this proposal would require approval by two-thirds of both the House and Senate, followed by ratification by three-fourths of state legislatures before becoming law. The resolution is currently in the early stages of the legislative process and has not yet been voted on by the full House.