Oregon Natural Individual Rights Amendment (2014)
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The Oregon Natural Individual Rights Amendment did not make the November 2014 statewide ballot as an initiated constitutional amendment. The measure would have declared that natural individuals or people have more rights than "artificial individuals," such as corporations, governments or artificial intelligence. It would have also specified that natural individuals can exercise a privacy right. The measure would have amended Article I of the Oregon Constitution by adding a new section to it.[1][2][3]
Text of measure
Ballot title
The certified ballot title reads as:[1]
| “ | Amends Constitution: Natural individuals have more rights than corporations/government ("artificial individuals"), can "exercise" (undefined) privacy right[4] | ” |
Constitutional changes
The initiative proposed the addition of the following language in a new section of Article I of the Oregon Constitution:[3]
| Natural individuals, people, shall have more rights than artificial individuals, such as corporations, government and artificial intelligence. Natural individuals can exercise their inherent right to privacy.[4] |
Support
This measure was primarily sponsored by Douglas Paul Stanford, William N. Appel and Michael Bachara.[1]
Path to the ballot
The measure was filed with the Oregon Secretary of State on July 12, 2013 and approved for circulation on September 6, 2013. Supporters must gather 116,284 valid signatures by July 3, 2014 to qualify for the ballot.[1] No signatures were submitted for the measure.[5]
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Oregon Secretary of State, Elections Division, "Detailed Information For : 23/2014," accessed June 7, 2014
- ↑ Oregon Secretary of State, Elections Division, "Certified ballot title and summary for proposed initiative 23," August 20, 2013
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Oregon Secretary of State, Elections Division, "Full text of proposed initiative 23," July 15, 2013
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source. Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "quotedisclaimer" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Margaret Koenig, "Telephone interview with William N. Appel, a chief petitioner for the measure," July 3, 2014
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