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Legalize Democracy

30 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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David Cobb of the Move to Amend Leadership Team opens with a linguistic point that becomes the film's argument: democracy comes from demos and kratia, "the people rule," and he lays out how far current American practice has drifted from that definition. The film examines the legal doctrine of corporate personhood and the Citizens United ruling, tracing how court decisions have expanded corporate rights and money's role in elections while ordinary voters lose influence over policy. Interviews with organizers and legal advocates walk through the history of corporate constitutional rights, from railroad-era rulings to campaign finance law, arguing that the problem is structural rather than a matter of which party holds office. The film presents Move to Amend's proposed constitutional amendment as a remedy, explaining what it would change and why its backers see a constitutional fix as necessary rather than optional. It stays focused on this one legal and political thread rather than surveying democracy's problems broadly, building toward the case that the amendment is the leverage point.