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		<title>Political Speech</title>
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The United States citizens are blessed with a concise and thoughtful constitution notable for its brevity and power. One incredibly enabling portion of our Constitution is the First Amendment. Currently in our political culture we are strengthened by our right to free speech. &nbsp;It is difficult to remember that those words were composed at a time when women did not have the right to vote or express themselves politically, and the institution of slavery, prevalent at the time, was the ultimate denier of free speech. The First Amendment grants rights broadly defined and yet does no... <a href="http://www.renewdemocracy.org/blog/posts/435/Political-Speech">Read More</a>&nbsp;&raquo; ]]></description>
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		<title>Request from Your Constituency</title>
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Request from Your Constituency
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(Senator or Representative) [____________] We have gathered here as a delegation of concerned citizens in the interest of the concept of one person, one vote and aggrieved by the current state of one dollar, one vote.&nbsp; The situation in the United States of America has become very unfriendly to the common man and woman.&nbsp; Jobs have been going away at a pace that exceeds the appearance of new jobs.&nbsp; Our schools are under funded; our infrastructure is falling into disrepair; our police forces and fire departments hav... <a href="http://www.renewdemocracy.org/blog/posts/491/Request-from-Your-Constituency">Read More</a>&nbsp;&raquo; ]]></description>
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		<title>Pledge to Support Efforts to End Corporate and Non-Constituency  Financing of Elections and Lobbying</title>
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Pledge to Support Efforts to End Corporate and Non-Constituency&nbsp; Financing of Elections and Lobbying
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I _________________________ a candidate for the office of ______________________ in the state of __________________ , do hereby vow (swear?) to give my full support to efforts to amend the U.S. Constitution to limit campaign contributors to only the constituency to the office that I am seeking.&nbsp; 
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I vow to also support efforts to amend that contributors&rsquo; donations shall be limited to $_____.00 per candidate per election... <a href="http://www.renewdemocracy.org/blog/posts/492/Pledge-to-Support-Efforts-to-End-Corporate-and-Non-Constituency-Financing-of-Elections-and-Lobbying">Read More</a>&nbsp;&raquo; ]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25, Oct 2011 09:10:56 PST</pubDate>
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		<title>Josh Gerstein</title>
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		<title>Montana Stands Tall</title>
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		<title>Contact Page</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ We recently had a question come in that was abosutlely fantastic and we wanted to share it with you.
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Does your ammendment extend the limit to unions as well? If yes, I am all for it. If no, you are just wolves dressed in sheeps clothing.
Why stop at contributions? Where is the ban on lobbying? From my pespective, this is just as big of a cancer as the financing issue.
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Thank you for your interest in the Renew Democracy Amendment. In section 2 the amendment states:&nbsp;The right to contribute to political campaigns and political parties is held solely by... <a href="http://www.renewdemocracy.org/blog/posts/545/Contact-Page">Read More</a>&nbsp;&raquo; ]]></description>
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		<title>Director Message</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ As the director of Renew Democracy, an advocacy group for a constitutional amendment to restore the primacy of the individual American voter in the political process, I would say that Dana is exactly correct. The groups that Dana mentions are certainly founded with the best of intent. There is however a basic fundamental flaw that these groups overlook and that they may not be able to overcome. They represent a particular constituency. For a constitutional amendment to be successful there must be a super majority of broad-based support. Polling data indicates that the super majority of supp... <a href="http://www.renewdemocracy.org/blog/posts/565/Director-Message">Read More</a>&nbsp;&raquo; ]]></description>
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		<title>Until Our Representatives</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Until our representatives are paid only by the voter we can expect representation by special-interest and dysfunctional representative democracy. We at Renew Democracy feel that currently our legislators are not motivated correctly for our representational democracy to function. We feel crucial reform is necessary to restore the primacy of the American voter in the political process. We feel that unless our representatives are motivated to represent only the voters, our current broken system cannot be transformed. We need to take the steps to a small donor democracy.&nbsp; . Our proposal wo... <a href="http://www.renewdemocracy.org/blog/posts/579/Until-Our-Representatives">Read More</a>&nbsp;&raquo; ]]></description>
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