As they say - Even a Blind Pig will root up an acorn now and then.
The Bill Of Rights applies to actual people - or at least it did for over two hundred years.
I do not believe the Founders ever intended the Bill Of Rights to apply to entities like businesses, labor unions, organizations, foundations, collectives or corporations.
The individuals who comprise those entities do have constitutional rights and protections and can speak for themselves as individuals.
The rise of the collective in our culture goes hand in glove with the leftist movement toward fostering group identity as the primary allegiance of individuals, and discouraging primary allegiance as citizens, family members and as individuals responsible for our own actions.
Extending constitutional “rights” to groups and collectives is another step toward injecting the concepts of socialism and collectivism into our culture, replacing the family and the individual as the basic building blocks of society.
With all due respect, that is the stupidest argument I have heard in a while.
The GOV. does not choose who or what has rights! Rights are God Given, and one has the ability to pursue happiness. If that hapliness evolves into a Corporation thaen so be it.
The very word Corporation (corpus) means a “body of people”, therefore the “body of people” have the same damn rights whether it is indicidual or collective.