Ecuador is voting on a new constitution this weeke...

Ecuador is voting on a new constitution this weekend that, among many other things, would give Nature legal rights and allow citizens to sue on its behalf – and the President is threatening to quit if it doesn’t pass. Due to ignorance, I can’t really judge this in the context of Ecuador (although 444 articles seems like way too many to me for a constitution), but it leads me to wonder if there’s a Nature amendment movement in the U.S. – not that it would have any political traction.

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It seems like state statutes that allow individuals to work as "private attorney generals" do that job to some extent. We have one here, although it got declawed a bit after some douchebags in Beverly Hills abused it. I'm sure a certain lawyer knows more about this than I do.

Lorelei | Fri, 09/26/2008 - 10:40am