On Sunday, June 30 at 11 a.m., the Peterborough Unitarian Universalist Church hosts Constitutional attorney Jeff Clements, who will share his ideas on Equal Citizens or Oligarchy: New Hampshire and the Cross-partisan Movement for the 28th Amendment to the US Constitution to kickoff the Monadnock Summer Lyceum.
Clements, a founder and current President of American Promise national cross-partisan campaign for the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, will describe his mounting concerns about current assaults on American democracy including: systemic corruption, unequal representation, and control of elections and policymaking by powerful, wealthy interests. He supports a new 28th Constitutional Amendment limiting election funding, thus combating corruption and securing free speech and equal representation for all.
American democracy needs citizen-driven constitutional amendments, especially now that recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions have altered equality by declaring corporations, unions, and virtually any other source of money in politics to be “free speech,” thus immunized from reasonable limits. This transformation endangers the foundations of liberty and republican government, equal, responsible citizens’ voices and sound checks and balances. The proposed 28th Amendment will rebuild a Constitutional foundation for effective self-government.
The citizen-driven campaign of American Promise to win that amendment calls every American to work to repair the national civic fabric while driving forward historic, permanent reform.
Clements, author of “Corporations Are Not People: Reclaiming Democracy From Big Money & Global Corporations”, has been a partner in a major Boston law firm, served as Massachusetts’ Assistant Attorney General and Chief of the Public Law Enforcement Bureau, and in 2012 founded Whaleback Partners LLC, providing sustainable financing to local agriculture businesses. Olivia Zinc, Executive Director of Open Democracy and member of Priorities NH committee will moderate.
At 10:30 a.m., enjoy pianist Eric Stumacher. Following the program, stay and meet Clements at a reception.