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I do not see anything bad here. I own a corporation and I am a conservative capitalist. That being said, corporations were not guaranteed anything in the Constitution. So, I invoke the broken clock rule here.

I think Sotomayor may actually be thinking like an originalist here. Since corporations are creatures of statutory law, their rights to speech and other liberties are likewise created under the same statutes that grant them rights as "persons". Therefore as long as their existence as persons is statutory, their rights as persons hinge upon a legislative grant of the liberties guaranteed to individual persons under the Constitution.

IOW they have, as corporations, no constitutional rights not expressly granted to them by the legislatures that grant them status as "persons".

This is not to say that individuals who own corporations give up any constitutional rights by incorporating their businesses, but their businesses have no unalienable rights which legislatures are not free to take away.

Corporations are "persons" only at the whim of legislatures and hence their rights as persons are also subject to the whims of the legislatures which grant them personhood.

Hmm, I suggest you re-read the Constitution. It clearly says “ The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

I think that pretty much covers the ball park.

You aren't talking about some esoteric right in the sky created by judges for evil corporations, but rather you are talking about MY RIGHTS, and MY NEIGHBORS RIGHTS, and among those are the RIGHT TO FREELY ASSEMBLE, to get together for barbeques, to create a corporation, to seek rezoning, etc.

There's just all sorts of things here ~ millions of things ~ we can even have a buyers club made up of the young mothers.