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Michigan Ad Hoc Committee
for the
Human Rights Amendment

(MAHCHRA)

The Human Rights Amendment to the Constitution of the United States:

Article 1: The rights established by this Constitution and the laws of the United States of America are exclusively the rights of living, breathing humans, citizens of this country or residing therein. No corporation or other type of association or organization can have the status of a "legal person," and thus cannot derive rights from such status.

Article 2: These organizations have no permanent, constitutionally protected rights, though they may have such powers or immunities as are explicitly granted to them by legislative actions at either the federal or the state level. These powers or immunities may be modified or removed by later action of the same legislative bodies. In no case can these powers or immunities override the constitutionally protected rights of human beings.

Why is this amendment needed?

What would this amendment accomplish?

Why should any organization work on getting it passed?

Who is this "ad hoc committee"?

Why not have the amendment do more?

More to come

Your comments on this issue would be appreciated. We will post your comments for and against, with your e-mail address, provided the comments are not of the "You are a god-damned fool/anarchist/anti-Christ/etc.," variety. We will also be posting a page of links to organizations that support the Human Rights Amendment. If there is a link you would like to have listed, e-mail MAHCHRA.

Meanwhile, take a look at a very interesting web-based organization that has compatible goals - Organization for a Liberated Society.