The California Human Rights Amendment will define human rights (i.e., "Personhood") commencing at fertilization. This amendment is unlike all other legislation in that it does not embrace exceptions that legalize abortion and removes the politically charged rhetoric of the "life" debate and replaces it with the commonsense scientific principle that life begins at each human being's biological development as a human organism.

"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe." — Frederick Douglass

The Frederick Douglass Foundation is a public policy and educational organization which brings the sanctity of free market and limited government ideas to bear on the hardest problems facing our nation. We are a collection of pro-active individuals committed to developing innovative and new approaches to today's problems with the assistance of elected officials, scholars from universities and colleges and community activist.

This project is not a Democratic issue or a Republican issue. We have watched presidents in both parties fail to pass their agendas, it is also clear that elections are no longer where decisions are made in this country. A wealthy few, neither dependent on nor accountable to the people, control the direction of our government. The goal here is to restore public trust in our government. Our sole purpose is to restore the independence and integrity of Congress by eliminating the influence of money in politics.