Can a constitutional amendment fix money in politics? Jeff Clements thinks so.
The conventional wisdom is that we’re too divided to amend the Constitution. Jeff Clements, Co-founder and CEO of American Promise, has spent nearly a decade proving that wrong.
On the latest Democracy Lab, Jeff walks us through the For Our Freedom Amendment - a three-section proposal designed to reverse Citizens United and restore congressional and state authority to regulate money in elections. The core argument is that no American ever voted for the system we have, and only a constitutional amendment can undo it.
Twenty-five states (both blue and red, most recently in Idaho) have now passed measures backing the amendment, and support is building in Congress. The bipartisan breadth is key and is what history points to. Jeff traces the strategy directly to the 26th Amendment’s lesson by going to the states first.
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