Fixing Our Broken Democracy
Supreme Court decisions such as Citizens United and McCutcheon have
opened the floodgates to the corrupting influence of money in politics. A
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movement to amend the Constitution to overturn these decisions and
restore government of, by and for the people is gathering momentum
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across the United States.
New Jersey, Vermont, California and Illinois have voted to call for an
Article V convention to propose such a Constitutional amendment. Last
November, 18 legislative districts in Massachusetts approved a ballot
question addressing this amendment with more than 2/3 vote in every
one of the districts.
A bill named the We The People Act has been filed on Beacon Hill.
To learn more about the democracy movement and its historical
context, the public is invited to come to a presentation “Fixing Our
Broken Democracy” sponsored by the Foxboro Democratic Town
Committee on Monday, March 16th at the Foxboro Public Safety
Building, 7:15 p.m.
