Recent Trends in Corporate Personhood and the Overexpansion of Corporate Rights

[Okeefenokee]

We need a law.

For what?

verily.

[Martin Hash]

Hey, I'll let you Corporations-Are-People-Too folks win this one. I know when I'm out-classed.

[Okeefenokee]

No one said corporations are people.

Member when not even citizens united was enough to get this man claps?



I was looking for Jeb's turtles, and look what I found!

[Speaker to Animals]

Those guac bowls might be a collector's item.

[Martin Hash]

No one said corporations are people.

(Did you not read the title of this thread?)

[Speaker to Animals]

Personhood != people;

[SuburbanFarmer]

Being able to sue someone is not a Constitutional Right....

Redress of grievances.

...that's the right to sue the government, not other people. How the fuck...

[SuburbanFarmer]

Personhood != people;

I'm on the edge of my seat for this one...

[SuburbanFarmer]

Corporations, by definition, are legal persons. Otherwise you'd not be able to tax them, sue them, etc.

Aaaaaand strike three.

They are a grouping of people, formed into a company. You can tax that company as a collective entity, and therefore the people within it, but that doesn't make it "a person".

Do the other amendments apply? Are corporations granted the right to have a religion, and bear arms? Looking forward to Exxon-Mobile's missile defense program, or Disneys private militia.

[Okeefenokee]

Corporations, by definition, are legal persons. Otherwise you'd not be able to tax them, sue them, etc.

Aaaaaand strike three.

They are a grouping of people, formed into a company. You can tax that company as a collective entity, and therefore the people within it, but that doesn't make it "a person".

Do the other amendments apply? Are corporations granted the right to have a religion, and bear arms? Looking forward to Exxon-Mobile's missile defense program, or Disneys private militia.

you just can't help yourself.