Our founders were wealthy landowners who sought to reduce their tax to the British Crown. At the time, other monarchs were beginning to be challenged as well, as the Enlightenment Period took form.

This was in the 1770s. We had not even yet reached the Industrial Age. It was later-stage medieval culture. These men were mostly English yet wanted to create a system that was at least superior to a colonial monarchy. And yet, as products of their time, women had no voice in this constitution, Black Americans were not treated as fully human, and the rights of Native Americans were entirely ignored.

It’s curious that even in that long-ago era, our founding fathers were apprehensive about corporations. The East India and Hudson Bay Corporations had already shown their immense power and the destruction they could create. As a result, corporations did not hold a strong place in our original constitution.

Some 130 years later, the great socialist Eugene Debs declared The Constitution to be “an autocratic and reactionary document” written by aristocrats and “in every sense a denial of democracy.”

Today, we live under the knee of corporations and the ultra-wealthy. Their primary tool beyond all others is “The Corporation”—an entity that kills capitalism and thwarts socialism alike. Noam Chomsky states that since 1975, somewhere between $70 and $80 trillion has been stolen from the American people and given to the top 1%.

We require the revolutionary act of creating a new constitution. We have the oldest constitution in the world, and can learn much from what other countries have done since our inception. But before we write, we must find our ground.

“Our ground is Life itself, Now. We are many tribes, but one people, and we share this Earth.”