Wait a minute. What is a corporation? If I get together with a majority of my neighbors in a housing development and we come up with agreements on how to safeguard the value of our homes, do we constitute a “corporation? Would we then be denied our 1st Amendment protections? Think long and hard about the reprecusiuons of Soto(all Latino all the time)mayor’s ideology.
Agree 100%. I do not understand the idiots on this thread who are cheering this talk from Sotomayor, saying, "Dere aint no such ting as group rights!" That's not the issue!
As I said upthread, if government is allowed to constrain what it defines as "corporate" speech, it will find a way to expand the definition of "corporate" as broadly as possible. They will bypass the First Amendment the same way they want to bypass the Electoral College.
Yes, but I think the point is why are there “rights” granted to the collective that consists you and your neighbors? You have a personal vote, a personal voice, and so on, as do your neighbors. What is this additional right that you now collectively have?
No. That is an association, which is an entity consisting of individuals all of whom have all the liberties of individuals under the Constitution. A "Corporation" is a statutory entity which is only fictionally a "person". Corporations have limited liability which individuals and associations do not.