To: GOP_Lady
While it is enticing to see McCain/Feingold rolled back, this is not constitutional. Corporations are not people even though a law clerk fraudulently wrote a headnote in the Santa Clara v. Souther Pacific Railroad case which is cited as the precedent for corporate personhood.
Corporations (profit and non-profit) are statutory entities created in law. They have whatever rights we grant them in law. The founding fathers knew the threat that corporations were to the republic.
Here is a great discussion on the threat that corporations pose to our republic: Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights by Thom Hartmann
5 posted on
01/21/2010 7:45:39 PM PST by
Nephi
(freerepublic didn't even embed a campaign against the Huckster, but he's done anyway)
To: Nephi
Artificial persons have the same rights as natural persons. Our free enterprise economy is based on the concept of equal treatment of all persons under the law.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
9 posted on
01/21/2010 8:29:52 PM PST by
goldstategop
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