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To: Army Air Corps
And if so, does that extend to Unions as well?

U.S. Supreme Court precedent on the constitutional rights of corporations, unions and other "artificial persons" is a mess. It has been held that neither corporations nor unions have a Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, but that both are protected by the Seventh Amendment's gurantee of a right to trial by jury. Cases go both ways as to other constitutional rights.

43 posted on 09/17/2009 2:29:32 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Lurking Libertarian
U.S. Supreme Court precedent on the constitutional rights of corporations, unions and other "artificial persons" is a mess.

The source of which is "selective incorporation."

52 posted on 09/17/2009 2:32:24 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (Islam offers three choices: surrender, fight, or die.)
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