Does Congress represent the will of the people, or the will of corporations?
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75% OF AMERICA SAYS CORPORATIONS.
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corporations are people too.
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Corporations are given the rights of individuals and should be held accountable by the same standards. Like all good citizens they have a responsibility to protect the environment of the communities they reside in as well as the places where their products are used. They also have a responsibility to protect their employees from environmental and workplace hazards.\n\nThey have a responsibility to their customers, employees and stockholders to operate their businesses honestly and fairly. They must avoid deception and the appearance of deception.\n\nUnfortunately corporations have accepted the rights of individuals and have avoided the responsibility portion of the formula. Corporations today have very little regard for communities they reside in.  They hide under the shield of multinationalism. They operate everywhere with responsibility to no one. They strip natural resources from countries without environment protections statutes. When they are forced to clean up their act they simply move to the next third world country. They have a total disregard for people, governments and cultures. They do the absolute minimum required. They have no regard for others.\n\nModern corporation operate for the benefit of their executives and key investors, and no one else. They routinely shift resources between corporations at the expense of the common stock holder. They have become so powerful that they manipulated governments and even instigate wars to protect their assets. Today’s corporations have become the monsters without souls and new laws need to be written to protect society from them.
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Big corporations give big money which then requires elected officials to push policies that promote the needs and wants of the companies.  If an elected official had to have a bake sale to pay for the elction it may change how they vote on major issues such as medical care and recycle... no large companies pulling the strings and a politition may actually have to think for himself.  WOW!  A congress person who had to think for themselves.  What a world.
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I believe your answer would be "C" based upon this website:\n\nhttp://www.usconstitution.net/articles.html#Article5\n\nArticle V. For the most convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislatures of each State shall direct, to meet in Congress on the first Monday in November, in every year, with a power reserved to each State to recall its delegates, or any of them, at any time within the year, and to send others in their stead for the remainder of the year.\n\nNo State shall be represented in Congress by less than two, nor more than seven members; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the United States, for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees or emolument of any kind.\n\nEach State shall maintain its own delegates in a meeting of the States, and while they act as members of the committee of the States.\n\nIn determining questions in the United States in Congress assembled, each State shall have one vote.\n\nFreedom of speech and debate in Congress shall not be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Congress, and the members of Congress shall be protected in their persons from arrests or imprisonments, during the time of their going to and from, and attendance on Congress, except for treason, felony, or breach of the peace
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I am a 3rd year law student and the answer is pretty much "yes". After a long line of cases after the Burger Court, the Court has been very deferential to allowing Congress to regulate activities "affecting, involved in or substantially affecting" interstate commerce. There are certain situations where it would be blantatly out of Congress's power to regulate (like something purely intrastate) but for the most part, Congress can regulate about any activity that has a substantial affect on interstate commerce.
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The commerce clause deals with interstate interests while the police power deals with in state interests. For awhile it seemed like congress was overruning the state powers until about 1998 when it decided that congress had carried it too far and required that the constitutional standard for rational basis be met as more than lip service.
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personnal or corporate ?
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The government is run by the people, these days into the ground by liberals. Years ago the people trusted the government to run the country by the laws that were written. Now we look for a problem with whoever is President while letting Congress run amok. Laws are made by Congress not by the sitting President.
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Elected representatives are supposed to act in the best interests of their constituents. This would include the President. There is however no defined way for our politicians to calculate what the interests of the people are. Once in office, they exercise the powers of the office the way they see fit. As citizens we can write letters to express our interests. If enough letters are received, this may sway opinion. The constitution also grants us the right to peaceably assemble and have our grievances heard by the government.\n\nHow far we can push the administration depends on how willing the administration is to listen to its citizens. That is something important to consider when electing people to office. Once in office, politicians are very hard to remove unless they are doing something illegal. The good news is that political offices have terms and if you disagree with the administration, you will have a chance to fix it in the next election.
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Corporations are already considered to be legal persons, partially to shield officers and employees from law suits. \n\nThe extent that a corporation should have the rights and freedoms of individuals is a matter of concern. Should a corporation be able to cast a ballot in an election? What if Microsoft or General Motors tried to run for president? Should Mary Kay Inc. be allowed to marry Calvin Klein, Inc? Government does not heavily regulate personal relationships, but it does regulate corporate mergers in an effort to ensure that the best interest of the nation and the consumer is served (at least, that is the theory).
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The American public can demand all it wants.  It is Congress who must take such action and such action is highly unlikely given the balance of political power.
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Support "Clean Money, Clean Elections" public campaign finance resolutions in your city and state. This has been passed in Maine, Connecticut and Arizona and really helps. See the links below.\n\nPublic financing of elections would be the best first step to ending corporate control. You're right that congressmen aren't selling out just for some Kobe beef and an expensive bottle of wine. Right now, elected officials must cater to corporations in order to raise enough money to win an election.
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During the time of the Convention a number of issues were addressed.  One of the primary concerns was how was the Congress of the United States to be structured and how would the members gain membership.  The suggested approaches were from a single house with hereditary members to a bicameral congress with all members elected directly from the people.  \n\nThe final version was a bicameral congressional structure with the upper house membership comprised of two members from each State and these elected by the legislature of the State from which they come.  The lower house was to have members in numbers defined by population and this would result in each State having unique numbers of representatives, and these representatives would represent the people of a given district and only the citizens of that district could vote for that representative.  \n\nIn this process people would be represented by a single directly elected representative.  The States each represented by two representatives.\n\nTo carry this further, the President would be elected by delegates to the Electoral College and delegates would be elected in a manner singularly directed by each State.\n\nThe members of the Supreme Court would be selected by the President with advise and consent of the Senate.\n\nThe pattern here should be obvious, that is, popular election of these offices was not desired by the Founders.  Even the members of the lower house were elected by small districts within each State.  \n\nI’m only guessing that this is what you were asking about, because there were other issues and your question wasn’t clear.
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.\n\nThis prohibits the government from restricting natural human rights that, among other things, are obviously crucial to economic activity.  If people can't gather together and can't speak freely, for example, what can they do?  Where can they get information to help them develop? Etc.\n\nThis applies to business today in such areas as use of copyrighted materials and patents, and in leaving one job for another, and in anti-discrimination issues...
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One governed by congress
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If Bill Gates wanted to be president he would be. Corporations pay bribes to Congress than they get it back from Congress. This is organized crime at it's best.