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American Promise Gears Up for a 50-State Citizen Uprising to Win 28th Amendment to Get Big Money Out of Politics – Adding New Staff and Expanding Advisory Board | February 22, 2017

Law Professors John Coates and Tamara Piety and business leader, Jack Doty, join Senator Alan Simpson, Doris Kearns Goodwin and more on Advisory Council  Cambridge, MA -- American Promise, a national cross-partisan non-profit organization dedicated to winning a 28th Amendment to overturn Citizens United v. FEC and secure the political equality… Read more

American Promise Testifies in Maryland for 28th Amendment | February 22, 2017

On March 10th, in Maryland, the Education, Health & Environmental Affairs Committee will hear testimony by Jeff Clements, President of American Promise, testifies in Support of the Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Proposed By Senate Joint Resolution 4 and House Joint Resolution 6. Read testimony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8HiCSdT7sY Read more

Oil Money, Free Speech, & Misuse of Constitution | February 15, 2017

BIG IDEA: In another episode of I AM CORPORATE, HEAR ME ROAR, Exxon Mobil has tried to use the Bill of Rights to run the Massachusetts and New York Attorneys General out of business by inventing a constitutional right to obstruct state investigations into allegations of fraud. This VOX op-ed points up… Read more

Wyoming is Fired Up for 2018 Ballot Initiative | February 6, 2017

Wyoming is making its bid to be the 19th state to formally call for the 28th Amendment to overturn the notorious Citizens United v. FEC decision. In just the past week before this committee vote took place: We asked Senator Alan Simpson (R-Wyoming), of the American Promise Advisory… Read more

Citizen Leadership Succeeded in Wyoming Resolution | February 3, 2017

Our friends in Wyoming gathered in Laramie for a Citizen Uprising event last week, and within days, delivered across the aisle and across Wyoming. Direct communication from voters to their representatives made the difference. Read more... Read more

Wisconsin to Stop Big $ | February 1, 2017

For anyone who wakes up every day thinking that the 28th Amendment to stop big money in politics is for "left leaning" Americans, think again. On election day, when the state of Wisconsin went for a "right leaning" ticket, several Wisconsin cities and towns across the state voted… Read more

Big Money is Expensive | February 1, 2017

A very interesting development is taking hold in Maine communities where public funding models are helping representative  democracy flourish. And it turns out that it can even save the government a bunch of money. Have a look: http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/50-solutions/where-citizens-can-run-for-office-without-big-money-and-win-20161104 Read more

Senators Udall & Heinrich Reintroduce 28th Amendment | January 25, 2017

Today, just days after the seventh anniversary of the Supreme Court's Citizens United v. FEC decision allowing unlimited corporate spending in elections, U.S. Senator Tom Udall, joined by U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich and other cosponsors in the Senate and U.S. House of Representatives, reintroduced the Democracy for All… Read more

A Statement from Senator Alan Simpson R – Wyoming (1979 – 1997) American Promise Advisory Council | January 20, 2017

January 23, 2017 Dear fellow citizens of Wyoming: I so wish I could be back in Laramie with you today, and I want to thank you for joining this urgent conversation regarding our democracy, and our rights and responsibilities as equal citizens in this Republic. While my travel… Read more

Turner, Leach, Clements: Americans Agree It’s Time For The 28th Amendment | January 10, 2017

The voices of American Promise are singing in Iowa! Fmr. State Senator Nina Turner (D-Ohio) and Fmr US Rep Jim Leach (R-Iowa) of our Advisory Council, joined president, Jeff Clements, in a DesMoines Register opinion piece in a call for Americans to join together to win the 28th… Read more

Citizen Uprising Overdue | January 6, 2017

Check out the American Promise piece on Truthout.org about the secret memo and 40-year trend that has brought the United States to the brink of oligarchy, and the dawn of the 50-state Citizen Uprising to keep our government in our own hands. To read more. Read more

United to Amend Report | November 9, 2016

Contact: George Penn, 608-244-6436, [email protected] Eighteen Communities Voted to Amend the U.S. Constitution Madison, WI (November 9, 2016) –On Tuesday, November8th, Wisconsin residents in eighteen communities voted to amend the U.S.Constitution to clarify that only human beings should have inalienable human rights and money is not the same… Read more

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Brian Boyle: An Amendment to Center “We the People” in Our Constitution

America is in crisis. The convergence in 2020 of the Covid-19 pandemic and the interrelated crises of economy, racial justice, political violence, climate disasters, and a collapse of trust has laid bare the danger and high stakes we Americans now face. Our constitutional democracy and commitment to the American promise of human liberty, equal citizenship, and effective self-government are in urgent need of repair and renewal. Read More

Keep the Promise: America250

America is in crisis. The convergence in 2020 of the Covid-19 pandemic and the interrelated crises of economy, racial justice, political violence, climate disasters, and a collapse of trust has laid bare the danger and high stakes we Americans now face. Our constitutional democracy and commitment to the American promise of human liberty, equal citizenship, and effective self-government are in urgent need of repair and renewal. Read More

#ChallengeAccepted: The American Promise Amendment + Reinventing Democracy for the 21st Century

Americans are in a huge moment of possibility for profound reform, and in that we can find hope. In the midst of systemic failures—in our economy, society, government—American citizens are rising to the challenge of reshaping our democracy for the 21st century and beyond. Read More

Building Support in Congress

Passing a constitutional amendment is difficult by design: the only way to achieve it is with widespread, cross-partisan support driven by grassroots action. While there are two routes to passing a constitutional amendment, only one method has ever been successfully used—acquiring two-thirds support from both houses of Congress and approval by three-quarters of the states. Read More

Money in Politics and Health Care

Big money political spending affects all facets of our society, including our nation’s health-care system. Lobbying from health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and other health care-related interests has resulted in a dysfunctional system that is more expensive and provides less coverage than those in other developed countries. Read more

A History of People Power

Throughout our nation’s history, citizen leaders have coalesced around reform movements that expand our fundamental rights to broader coalitions of Americans and improve our democratic self-governance—often through the amendment process. Read more

7 Critical Democracy Reforms: Which Are Most Important to You?

There are several election reforms at the core of the nascent democracy movement growing in the United States, and the prospect that we need to pass constitutional amendments to fix some of the structural issues is gaining traction. Read more
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