Posted on 03/07/2018 6:46:00 PM PST by null and void
Somewhat unintuitively, American corporations today enjoy many of the same rights as American citizens. Both, for instance, are entitled to the freedom of speech and the freedom of religion. How exactly did corporations come to be understood as people bestowed with the most fundamental constitutional rights? The answer can be found in a bizarreeven farcicalseries of lawsuits over 130 years ago involving a lawyer who lied to the Supreme Court, an ethically challenged justice, and one of the most powerful corporations of the day.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Christian colleges are corporations. The National Right to Life Committee is a corporation. A corporation is a legal structure allowing people to pursue a particular purpose, profit or nonprofit, without the individual participants being held personally liable for corporate malfeasance, If you would prefer that this not be the case, contact your Congressman or even your state legislator. There would be nothing unconstitutional about repealing legislation governing incorporation.
People who believe that the state is the proper instrument for regimenting American society so as to behave properly have destroyed the USA. They are just mindless collectives, with ruthless power. Backed by the governments guns.
Well said.
See post 59.
Corporations have lead us to the trouble we are in - Soros owns us.
Yes.
Yes.
Awesome!
I’m working on a new theorem. First, I must determine if a Corporation weighs more than a duck.
From there, it’s pretty straightforward.
The original article on this thread give a false history, and even a false characterization of the present circumstances, of corporations coming to have rights.
I also contended that the rise of general incorporation, as opposed to incorporation through government privilege, was a major advance in human welfare. Government tending as it does to grow to displace individual responsibility and freedom, its no surprise that specific corporations (not, note, some bogeyman called corporations), along with other highly focused interest groups, want to be at that trough, to have a big say in how legislation is made.
Only if they are trying to float a bond...
Gee, just like Roe v. Wade.
That revelation has me shaken, but not stirred.
Make no mistake, we won the war.
We lost the peace...
3-1/2 hours? Not today.
An ethically challenged justice 130 years ago? I didn’t realize Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg was that old.
Is it that hard to believe?
Not only am I the NRA...and I vote, but I am also a Corporation...and I vote. Actually am am one corporation and a third of another corporation!!!
Are labor unions people?
You forgot a barf alert
How does Toyota exercise its freedom of religion? It doesn’t acknowledge Happy Honda Days. Instead, December is a time of sellabration known as Toyotathon. Kind of like Christmas v Hanukkah.
Fair question. It shouldn’t surprise anyone if an ethically challenged justice concluded key, yes, Unions are people, corporations are not.
The Atlantic takes umbrage at some corporate lawyer “lying” to the Supreme Court, but are totally fine with all the lies told in Roe v Wade. Go figure. BTW, The Atlantic is a corporation isn’t it?
I disagree with the assertion that a corporation can not be executed (killed by the state). Enough taxes and regulation will absolutely kill a corporation.
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