United for Accountability et al. v. Corporate Congressional Influence and Systemic Disenfranchisement

🔒 Constitutional Violation: Corporate Override of Public Representation

Corporate lobbying has overtaken the function of representative government, replacing constituent-driven lawmaking with a pay-to-play structure that favors artificial legal entities over real people. This mass tort asserts that such influence is not only unethical and antidemocratic, but unconstitutional. Under the 9th Amendment, the people retain rights that are neither listed nor waived—including the right to be governed without interference by corporate capital.

“The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” — 9th Amendment

Corporations are not sovereign. Their influence has exceeded the boundaries of legitimate participation, and they now operate as unregulated co-governors without public consent. This case challenges the legitimacy of that arrangement.

🏛 How the 9th Amendment Applies

The 9th Amendment is a public safeguard. It exists to protect the rights that were too obvious to enumerate: the right to dignity, self-governance, and equal standing before the law.

This case asserts:

• That lobbying by corporations, PACs, and institutional holders has superseded the political voice of the people.
• That this influence has become a structural form of disenfranchisement, blocking legislation that would benefit the public.
• That more than half the population can, through unified constitutional demand, activate the 9th Amendment and force legal recognition.

We do not need permission to retain our rights. We need majority will and unified assertion.

If more than 50% of the U.S. population declares that corporate lobbying has violated their right to fair representation, we establish a majoritarian standing that no court can morally or democratically ignore.

⚖️ Legal Basis & Theories of Harm

A. Constitutional Violations

• 9th Amendment: Retained rights to representative democracy, fair access to influence, and protection from corporate governance.
• 1st Amendment (original intent): Freedom of speech belongs to people, not corporations; Citizens United distorted this.
• 14th Amendment: Equal protection under law is violated when access to lawmakers is determined by money.

B. Legal Theories

• Breach of Fiduciary Duty: Elected officials owe loyalty to the people, not lobbyists.
• Fraud and Misrepresentation: Laws passed under the guise of public interest but authored by corporate actors.
• Structural Harm: When policy, law, and enforcement are skewed by money, not merit.

📊 Evidence of Harm

• Over $4.1 billion spent on lobbying in 2023 alone.
• ALEC and similar organizations drafting model legislation behind closed doors.
• Voter-supported measures consistently overturned or obstructed by lobby-backed officials.
• Citizens, small businesses, and civic groups consistently locked out of influence.

🔨 Relief Sought

An End to Corporate Lobbying as a Constitutional Override: This is not merely about limiting influence—it is about terminating it where it violates collective public rights.

We seek a national recognition that corporate lobbying cannot continue where it supersedes citizen voice.

We invoke the collective constitutional power of the people to demand its end.

The people hold this power together, not through institutional permission, but through public majority and constitutional retention.

✊ Join the People’s Standing

This is not a symbolic case. It is a live assertion of rights retained by every American.

We are gathering public declarations to:

• Activate the 9th Amendment by reaching over 50% of the adult population.
• Document harm from lobbying interference in housing, healthcare, education, wages, and governance.
• Demand legal acknowledgment that representation is not for sale.

Submit your declaration: Sign here

When corporations write the laws, we are no longer a democracy. The Constitution was not written to serve capital. It was written to restrain it.

This is our legal right. This is our majority. This is our stand.

⚖️ Anticipated Rebuttal: “But the Courts Said They Can Lobby…”

The Counterargument: We the People Hold Constitutional Supremacy

Yes — the courts have interpreted the 1st Amendment to extend speech protections to corporations, particularly in Citizens United v. FEC (2010). But that ruling did not — and cannot — erase the 9th Amendment.

• The 1st Amendment protects speech.
• The 9th Amendment protects sovereignty.
• The 1st says what government cannot do.
• The 9th says what we can do when it fails to serve us.

🔓 The 9th Amendment Gives the People Power Over the Entire Constitution

“The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”

We assert that:

• The 9th Amendment preserves the public's authority to interpret, retain, and reclaim rights not explicitly listed — including the right to govern free from corporate distortion.
• It is a constitutional override clause, embedded to guard against the very consolidation of power we now face.
• Courts are not the sole or final authority on constitutional meaning — the people are.
• Judicial precedent cannot override constitutional retention by the majority.

🗳️ We Hold the Right to Change It — Collectively

The Constitution is not static — it is a living contract between the people and those who govern by our consent.

We do not need a constitutional amendment to defend a right we never gave up.

If more than half of the governed declare that corporate lobbying violates our constitutional balance, then:

• That majority holds constitutional supremacy under the 9th Amendment.
• We can lawfully demand the reversal of court precedent, the termination of lobbying access, and the reaffirmation that corporate entities are not sovereign political actors.

🛡️ Final Position

The Constitution does not belong to the courts. It belongs to the people who retain it.

We assert, under the 9th Amendment, that:

• Corporate lobbying is no longer constitutional when it overrides the will of the people.
• Court interpretations that conflict with retained public rights are subject to challenge and repeal.
• We have the right to end it. Full stop.

Submit your declaration: Sign here