Step-by-Step Organizer Toolkit for the People's Campaign for the Constitution

• Step 1: Reach Out
• Step 2: Build a Coalition
• Step 3: Hold Representatives Accountable
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Suggested Demands for People’s Campaign for the Constitution

• Restore Habeas Corpus for all persons detained under the jurisdiction or control of the U.S. government.
• Eliminate torture and rendition to torture by all U.S. employees, agents, and contractors.  Imprisonment must be humane and respectful of the human dignity of the detained.  Restore the rule of law, providing that all persons are innocent until proven guilty and human rights are respected.
• Provide speedy and fair trials for all accused.  Prohibit secret evidence or "hear-say" evidence originally received through torture.
• Restore Fourth Amendment protections of privacy from government data-mining, spying, and warrantless wiretapping.  Eliminate secret searches of homes, mail, and communications.
• Abolish government secrecy by restoring full, meaningful citizen access to information through the Freedom of Information Act.
• Restore First Amendment freedom to dissent, to speak, to practice one’s religion, and to seek redress of grievances.
• Revoke unconstitutional executive powers usurped since 2001, including:
• naming “enemy combatants” for indefinite detention without legal process;
• impeding fair trials by forbidding evidence claimed to be “state secrets”;
• imprisoning anyone, including U.S. citizens, without counsel, charges, witnesses, or trial;
• issuing National Security Letters or using other techniques to gather massive amounts of private information;
• spying on U.S. residents without warrants; and
• deterring or punishing whistleblowers;
• Restore the roles of the courts and Congress in overseeing the executive branch.
• Eliminate the use of executive signing statements that announce presidential intent to ignore legislation properly enacted by Congress and signed into law.
• Guarantee Fourteenth Amendment equal protection of the law by halting roundups and special registration of particular groups based on creed, race, country of origin, or other generalized characteristic, relying instead on due process procedures based on facts and individualized suspicion, probable cause, and court order for arrest of particular persons.
• Restore respect for the rule of law, including international treaties that the U.S. has signed.  Changes in U.S. policy would include obeying the requirement for humane treatment of detainees.  Restore the constitutional mandate that treaties are “the supreme law of the land.”
• Adopt and acknowledge procedures that allow victims of human rights and civil liberties violations, such as torture, warrantless surveillance, and other crimes, to seek justice in U.S. courts.