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A Corporation is NOT a “person” – legislative action needed!

January 23, 2010 By AmberPaw

The Wikipedia explanation of when a Corporation is – and is not a person has some good bibliography.  Essentially, though, a “legal fiction” is when due to case law or settled custom, courts and government pretend something untrue is true.

Note that the Wikipedia entry had not been updated, and predicted/considered that corporations and similar entities are neither entitled to, nor should they be entitled to free speech protections.

In fact, the USSCT created this doctrine in 1883, in the Santa Clara County decision, see discussion of Santa Clara County decision  Apparently, Court Reporter J.C. Bancroft, in pre internet days, added language into an official report which is the entire genesis of the corporate personhood legal fiction, and the new, repugnant Citizens United decision.  

Therefore, if a “Defense of Marriage Act”, or “DOMA”, can define marriage as being a legally recognized union between a man and a woman – without amending the constitution, why can’t a “person” be defined by legislation as “live flesh and blood human being, who is currently alive” for purposes of entitlement to constitutional rights, such as “free speech” from the Bill of Rights?

My preliminary analysis says this WOULD work; i.e., the cumbersome process of amending the U.S. Constitution is NOT needed, but rather an amendment to the United States Code, by passage of legislation such as was done in DOMA.

Shall we call it the Defense of Humanity Act or DOHA?

To allow corporations to pour their greater concentrated capitol directly into the political process is to return to the days of J.P. Morgan and the Rail Road Senator in Congress.

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Comments

  1. david-whelan says

    January 23, 2010 at 10:19 pm

    I actually agree. I also do not believe a union is a person.  

  2. dcsurfer says

    January 24, 2010 at 3:12 pm

    Most human individuals don’t have enough money to influence elections like JP Morgan did, but they can band together to buy ads that promote their common interest.

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