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To: nopardons; Havoc; hedgetrimmer
No, a corp[oration isn't a person, but they are owned and run by people.

Maybe not in your eyes but the law says differently:

In 1886, . . . in the case of Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that a private corporation is a person and entitled to the legal rights and protections the Constitutions affords to any person. Because the Constitution makes no mention of corporations, it is a fairly clear case of the Court's taking it upon itself to rewrite the Constitution.

Far more remarkable, however, is that the doctrine of corporate personhood, which subsequently became a cornerstone of corporate law, was introduced into this 1886 decision without argument. According to the official case record, Supreme Court Justice Morrison Remick Waite simply pronounced before the beginning of arguement in the case of Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company that:

The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations. We are all of opinion that it does.

From here

I guess you should try reading a little more history and stop telling others they are stupid.

508 posted on 01/03/2006 5:09:05 AM PST by raybbr (ANWR is a barren, frozen wasteland - like the mind of a democrat!)
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To: raybbr
Those on your side, kept saying that corporations aren't people. And no matter what all of your CCPing says, corporations aren't human, but are owned and run by humans.

Marxists ARE stupid. If you want to argue this point...fee free. b:-)

604 posted on 01/03/2006 6:42:39 PM PST by nopardons
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