The For Our Freedom amendment restores the authority of Americans to set the rules – putting decision-making back where it was for nearly 200 years of our country’s history.
Constitutional amendments are such an integral part of the Constitution that we cannot describe the Constitution without thinking about amendments. Our Constitution opens with the phrase “We the People.” It has literally – not symbolically – been shaped by the people who demand, debate, and push amendments through the arduous Article V process of a ⅔ vote in Congress and ratification in ¾ of the states so as to improve and adapt the Constitution to their needs.
The history of amending the U.S. Constitution consists of four brief amendment eras that have occurred roughly every 50 years since the Constitution was adopted.
In fact, millions of Americans alive today participated in winning constitutional amendment campaigns: four constitutional amendments were passed during the last amendment era, between 1961-1971*.
We believe a new amendment era is upon us. Circumstances leading up to each prior amendment era were fraught with national anxiety, division and toxicity. Americans approach the 250th anniversary of our Independence in 2026 feeling the same way:
Yet, there is plenty of hope. Past moments of civic unrest have spurred amendments that overruled unjust Supreme Court decisions, and now is such a time.
Americans have faced binary decisions that required constitutional solutions: slavery or freedom, suffrage for women or continued disenfranchisement, support poll taxes or abolish them.
Today, our choice is equally fundamental: either grant Americans the authority to implement anti-corruption laws or don’t.
*These amendments ended the poll tax; gave District of Columbia residents the right to vote in presidential elections; enfranchised millions of young Americans who were “old enough to fight, old enough to vote;” and stabilized our government with a succession plan and provisions for an incapacitated president.
Passing a constitutional amendment is the necessary and permanent solution to the problem we face. We will need to have millions of Americans with us, active in all 50 states.
Passing an amendment to the U.S. Constitution requires broad support across the country —beginning in the states and extending to Congress. Constitutional change often gains force in the states before it reaches Congress.
That is the logic behind our strategy: building support step by step, across political parties, to restore the authority of voters and their elected representatives to set the rules for money in our elections.
Ratification requires broad support across the country. Twenty-five states have already called on Congress to propose an amendment solution, and lasting success will depend on building momentum in every part of the nation.
That is why American Promise is pursuing a states-led strategy: growing active, cross-partisan support for the For Our Freedom Amendment and preparing for the work of ratification ahead.
When Congress proposes the amendment, the states will decide whether it becomes part of the Constitution. Building support now is how we prepare to win then.
American Promise provides tools, connection and training so everyone can make a difference in their communities and for their country.
Americans are deeply concerned about money in politics and are working together —Democrats, Republicans, and Independents— to defend freedom, protect election integrity, and keep government accountable to voters.
The For Our Freedom Amendment amends the U.S. Constitution to restore voters’ and lawmakers’ power to set the rules for money in elections.
Ensuring decisions about election rules are made by Americans and their elected representatives.
Starting in the mid-1970s, the Supreme Court began a series of rulings that put federal judges — not the American people or their elected representatives — in charge of the rules governing money in politics. Those decisions have meant Americans and our elected lawmakers have limited power to protect our elections from unlimited, outside, and even foreign-connected money.
The For Our Freedom Amendment restores that power where it belongs: with the people and their elected representatives.
Across political parties, Americans are united in their concern about money in politics, and they are united in restoring the authority of Congress and states to set the rules. Eight-one percent of Americans say they are worried about money in politics, and 71% support the For Our Freedom Amendment, including majorities of Republicans, Democrats and Independents.
The Constitution gives Americans a way to respond when the Supreme Court gets it wrong: the amendment process. We have used constitutional amendments eight times to correct Supreme Court rulings and restore the proper balance of freedom, equality, and self-government.
After decades of rulings that have limited our ability to set reasonable safeguards, only a constitutional amendment can restore that power to the American people and our elected representatives.
