See post 59.
Corporations have lead us to the trouble we are in - Soros owns us.
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.