Understood, but it’s dead easy to cite Representation as the reason for hearing the case, it can’t be disputed, and it leads directly to a decision on Personhood.
“Understood, but it’s dead easy to cite Representation as the reason for hearing the case, it can’t be disputed, and it leads directly to a decision on Personhood.”
Yes. And that’s the reason the court avoided that decision. They are not going to make it. We have to, and if we want them to recognize it we have to make personhood EXPLICIT in the Constitution. That is why, for now, democracy and moral suasion are the tools we have on the issue.