Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing that the rights protected and extended by the Constitution are the rights of natural persons only.

This proposal would change the Constitution to say that only human beings (“natural persons”) have rights under it. In simple terms, constitutional rights would apply to people, not to corporations, unions, or other organizations .

If adopted, this would limit who can claim constitutional protections in court to actual people. Organizations would no longer be able to assert constitutional rights on their own; their powers and protections would have to come from regular laws instead of the Constitution .

• Key points:
  • Who is affected: People; corporations, unions, nonprofits, and other non-human entities
  • What changes: Constitutional rights are reserved for natural persons only; organizations would not have constitutional rights
  • When: Would take effect only if this constitutional change is adopted