'Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie

The Atlantic ^ | Mar 5, 2018 | Adam Winkler

[untenured]

Corporations have destroyed the USA. They are just bureaucracies with ruthless power.

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 government’s guns.

[sparklite2]

Well said.

[donna]

See post 59.

Corporations have lead us to the trouble we are in - Soros owns us.

[null and void]

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

[SaveFerris]

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.

[untenured]

I agree with about 90% of what was in the article you linked.

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, it’s 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.

[null and void]

Only if they are trying to float a bond...

[aMorePerfectUnion]

a bizarre—even farcical—series of lawsuits over 130 years ago involving a lawyer who lied to the Supreme Court

Gee, just like Roe v. Wade.

[SaveFerris]

That revelation has me shaken, but not stirred.

[null and void]

Make no mistake, we won the war.

We lost the peace...

[null and void]

3-1/2 hours? Not today.

[Texas Eagle]

An ethically challenged justice 130 years ago? I didn’t realize Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg was that old.

[null and void]

Is it that hard to believe?

[jdsteel]

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!!!

[rfp1234]

Are labor unions people?

[Nifster]

You forgot a barf alert

[philled]

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.

[Texas Eagle]

Fair question. It shouldn’t surprise anyone if an ethically challenged justice concluded key, yes, Unions are people, corporations are not.

[Auntie Dem]

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?

[taxcontrol]

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.