[hinckley buzzard]

If you go down that route you end up denying corporations the right to exist. If they have no right to speech, then why should they have the right to enter into contracts, borrow money, own property, or do anything else that an individual person is empowered to do?

[dinoparty]

You are referring to Constitutional Rights. They may not have them, indeed. However, it is very easy to give them statutory rights that are equivelant to an individual’s Constitutional Rights — which all states have done through the legislative process.