✳️ Why This Is Needed

LGBTQ OR Whatever you may claim, are people, Corporations are not people.
But they’ve taken everything that belongs to real people—land, rights, law, voice, future—and used it to turn us into consumers, renters, and debt-slaves. Turning us on eachother every chance.

They hide behind “limited liability” and “fiduciary duty” while poisoning the water, buying elections, trading your health on Wall Street, and calling it freedom.

They write the rules, dodge the penalties, and settle their crimes with pocket change.
And while real people go to prison for stealing bread—CEOs get bonuses for defrauding entire states.

The courts gave them personhood.
The politicians gave them immunity.
The banks gave them power.
And now, we must take it back.

Because as long as a corporation has more rights than the citizen it displaces…
we are not free.

🌱 What We Could Have

We could return the law to the living.

We could finally say, in writing, what we all know in our bones:
The Bill of Rights was written for people. Not for banks. Not for billionaires. Not for multinational trusts.

We could create a new legal foundation—one that protects communities from corporate abuse, holds executives personally liable for irreparable harm, and restores the soul of democracy by putting the human being back in charge of the system.

We could finally distinguish between a business that serves life—and an entity that exists to exploit it.

This isn’t about punishing success.
It’s about protecting life from entities with no soul, no body, and no consequences.

🛠 How We Achieve It

Pass a South Dakota Human Sovereignty Protection Act that:

Declares that constitutional rights apply only to natural persons, not artificial entities

Prevents corporations from claiming protections under the 1st, 4th, or 14th Amendments

Ban corporations convicted of felony-level environmental or human rights violations from operating within the state

Hold executives and board members personally liable for irreparable harm caused by their business practices, with:

Criminal penalties for deaths, land loss, or poisoned resources

Asset forfeiture and jail time for willful, systemic abuse

Create a **Citizen Grand Jury

SECTION 1. TITLE

This Act shall be known as the “Human Sovereignty and Legal Personhood Act.”

SECTION 2. LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS

The Legislature of South Dakota finds and declares that:

1. The South Dakota Constitution was established to secure liberty, justice, and the general welfare of natural persons, not artificial entities.
   
2. The extension of constitutional rights—such as free speech, privacy, and equal protection—to corporations and trusts has undermined public sovereignty and enabled systemic abuse.
   
3. Corporate entities, being creations of law, must be regulated by law, and shall not hold rights superior to the people from whom their charters are derived.
   
4. The State of South Dakota, under its sovereign powers and in alignment with the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, reserves the right to define and limit the legal status of corporate entities operating within its borders.
   

SECTION 3. LIMITATION OF CORPORATE PERSONHOOD

(1) No corporation, limited liability company, trust, foundation, or other artificial legal entity shall be considered a "person" under the South Dakota Constitution or under any provision of South Dakota statutory or administrative law, except as necessary to contract, sue, or be sued.

(2) Such entities shall not be entitled to invoke rights under:

• Article VI of the South Dakota Constitution (Declaration of Rights)
  
• The First, Fourth, Fifth, or Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, as applied to natural persons
  

(3) All constitutional rights and privileges guaranteed by the State or Federal Constitution are hereby affirmed to apply exclusively to natural human persons.

SECTION 4. PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR CORPORATE HARM

(1) Where any artificial entity is found to have caused:

• Irreparable environmental damage
  
• Human health disasters (e.g., water contamination, chemical exposure)
  
• Systemic fraud affecting the lives or livelihoods of South Dakota citizens
  

…the chief executive officer(s), board members, and controlling parties shall be subject to:

• Civil liability equal to the harm caused
  
• Criminal prosecution under existing South Dakota criminal codes (e.g., criminal negligence, reckless endangerment, manslaughter, etc.)
  

(2) No corporate charter or legal shield shall protect a human actor from prosecution under this provision.

SECTION 5. CITIZEN CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY TRIBUNAL

(1) The Legislature shall authorize the creation of a Citizen Corporate Accountability Tribunal, composed of:

• 5 citizen members chosen by lottery
  
• 2 legal experts
  
• 1 environmental scientist
  
• 1 representative from tribal nations
  

(2) The Tribunal shall:

• Review citizen-initiated petitions against corporations accused of public harm
  
• Issue investigative referrals to the Attorney General
  
• Recommend operational bans, restitution, or charter revocation
  

(3) The Tribunal shall have subpoena authority and be funded through civil penalties collected under this Act.

SECTION 6. CORPORATE FELONY DISQUALIFICATION

(1) Any entity convicted of three or more felony-equivalent violations under state or federal law—including fraud, pollution, labor abuse, or bribery—shall be permanently barred from doing business in South Dakota.

(2) All licenses, contracts, and land holdings of such an entity shall be subject to state reclamation and public trust conversion.

SECTION 7. SEVERABILITY

If any provision of this Act is held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, all remaining sections shall remain in full effect.

SECTION 8. EFFECTIVE DATE

This Act shall take effect immediately upon passage and apply retroactively to all corporate actions under review or legal challenge at the time of enactment.

We are not subjects of corporations. We are citizens of a republic. And in South Dakota, the law will serve the living—not the chartered dead.