Amend the Constitution to
Silence Money in Politics
Special interest money — corporations, lobbyists, and the super rich — has captured our politics and Congress won't fix a broken system rigged to reward them. Only We the People, via a Constitutional Convention, subject-limited and representative, can make the change. It will take a movement in every state. Start in yours.
Mutable means changeable
Why an amendment, and why from the states.
Congress won't fix it.
Myriad Supreme Court decision, over decades, eroded a settled tenant of human nature: that money corrupts. The resulting system, most heavily controlled by wealthy interests, is responsible for electing and empowering our members of Congress. The system works well for all of them, at the expense of the people.
The Framers left a way around.
Article V of the U.S. Constitution lets the states themselves call for a convention to propose amendments — circumventing Congress — which the convention then sends back to the states and their voters for ratification. It has never been fully used. That is exactly why it's our best hope.
Every state is a door. Open yours.
We're active in Connecticut right now, promoting the convention and fighting for important safeguards and enabling legislation. The same path runs through your state — and we'll help you be the one who leads it.
Our politics has been quietly bought.
Not in one dramatic act, but through the accumulation of many incidious ones — until concentrated money became the constituency our government answers to first.
A few voices drowning out millions.
Since the Supreme Court swept away limits and regulations, a handful of corporations and billionaires can spend without ceiling to swing an election — drowning out the speech from ordinary voters.
Spending that's impossible to trace.
Enormous sums now flow into our elections through groups that never have to say who funded them. It's secretive money spent to persuade, while obscuring the source — and it grows every election cycle.
An army that writes the fine print.
Paid lobbyists vastly outnumber the lawmakers they petition, using money and perks to grease the wheels. But they don't just ask for favors — they help craft laws to enrich their clients, line by line, in rooms the public never sees.
The result is a government exquisitely responsive to its donors and strangely deaf to everyone else. This isn't a left problem or a right problem. It's a nationwide emergency.
One amendment, from the people.
The goal is narrow and bold at once: a constitutional amendment that restores our power to regulate and limit the role of money in elections.
It begins with an application. When two-thirds of state legislatures (34) formally apply for a convention limited to money in politics — in the same words, on the same subject — Congress must call one. That's the lever: not a plea to those in power, but a demand from the people.
There's fear in the unknown, but we're building it to be safe:
- One subject only. The convention is contained to campaign finance. Nothing else is on the table.
- The people's delegates. Delegates are elected by voters and legally bound to that single subject.
- The ultimate safeguard. Nothing becomes law unless three-fourths of states (38) ratify it — the largest required supermajority in American politics!
How far the amendment will go is up to the convention. It could simply override the Supreme Court and return to Congress the tools to enact campaign finance reform legislation. Or, it could bake-in instant, meaningful change: end personhood of artificial entities, cap the flood of independant expendatures and special interest money, expose the dark money trail, and even create options allowing underdogs to compete.
Visit Our Amend-o-matic to build yours →Imagine candidates persuaded by conversations with constituents, not deals with big donors. Disclosures so illuminated that "dark money" becomes a phrase of the past. Business and trade groups, always free to argue their case, not to lavish gifts. And a government, at last, responsive foremost to the needs of all Americans instead of its moneyed patrons.
We're opposed from both sides — and that tells you something.
Two very different forces stand between us and a convention. We reject one of them. We respect the other, and still believe it is mistaken.
A convention built to be captured.
A well-funded movement, backed by wealthy special interests and deeply embedded in state legislatures, is already organizing a convention for other purposes. And it wants the devious kind: delegates handpicked by politicians instead of elected by voters, with a sweeping and partisan agenda in place of a single, focused purpose. That is the unrepresentative, captured convention we reject — and our entire design exists to counter it and make it impossible. We are the answer to it.
Those who fear the cure.
This one is harder, because some of the strongest voices against a convention belong to groups we admire and reform organizations we agree with on many issues. We understand their fear of the capture. We simply think their conclusion is wrong. Their case rests on three warnings:
So we stand between a movement that wants a convention for the wrong reasons and those afraid of any convention at all. Being opposed from both directions isn't a weakness in our case — it's the mark of the sober path between a danger and a fear: a convention that is limited, representative, and safe by design.
Building in real time.
Nothing here is final yet; that's the invitation. Read what's published, see what's in progress, and consider yourself invited to help.
The Convention Handbook DRAFT · v0.2
Read the draftA plain-language guide to how an Article V convention should really work — and how it can be kept limited and safe. These are snippets from a larger document which is more comprehensive, goes deeper into some of the wonkiness, and is heavily cited.
The Connecticut Plan
Read onlineOur first state blueprint: the vision, and four concrete moves a state can make to lead. The clearest picture of what this actually looks like on the ground.
Model State Application DRAFT · v0.1
Read the draftThe resolution a state legislature passes to call for a convention limited to money in politics. The wording carries enormous weight — too loose and it risks an open convention, too rigid and states can't align. We're drafting language that is both safe and adoptable across states.
The History of Article V
Read onlineAn account of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, the event that necessitated such a monumental undertaking, and the conversations among the Framers surrounding the creation of Article V.
The Amend-o-matic
Build yoursOnly the convention will craft the final language, but with so many options, what would your campaign finance reform amendment look like?
Convention Standing Rules
In developmentProposed rules for how the convention itself would run — day one administration; voting structure; strict limits on scope; procedures that keep it from wandering. The procedural backbone that makes a limited convention real rather than theoretical.
The Faithfulness Act
In developmentA model state law binding the delegates a state sends — holding them to the single subject while, crucially, allowing for comprehensive deliberation of the substance. The mechanism that turns "we promise to stay narrow" into something enforceable.
Modeling the Cost
In developmentWhat it might actually take — in dollars, people, and time — to run a convention like this, state by state and nationally. We're building a detailed working model because visualizing the scope and logistics brings it closer to reality.
We're just getting started.
Mutable is at the very beginning — and we need all the help we can get. Here are three ways in, depending on how far you want to go.
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