When Did Corporations Become "People"?

piss off-

Well, you're not welcome in this bowling league. I'm trying to illustrate my beliefs and you're just getting nasty.

They never did. Corporations were deemed to have some of the contractual and liability properties as citizens in 1819.

Thank you!

They're not!A person has a Limited Life Span. A Corporation does not! You want to have the virtues of unlimited life?

When the Supreme Court decided it! You should really pay more attention.

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Nice try. Stay off SH and read some actual news.

derpa derp

I see you've lost your mind. You'll find it up your ass.

Thanks for looking. lol

I didn't have to. You have so many of your lefty friends up there it's location was just obvious.

Give it up. You're not funny. You're like the kid that calls someone a name and thinks it constitutes humor. It's lame. buy a joke book or something.

And how about you? You're as not funny as your pal Bill Maher.

You should take your own advice. Brains and humor for you must not be everything. In fact, in your case they're nothing!

So finally you concede. For that I give you a rave. I think that's a first for me.

It is emblematic of the 1% to believe the fictions that they have created to shield themselves from the consequences of their actions, which is the basis for the legal fiction of the corporation. In Romney's mind they ARE people.

The 1%...?

Nahh... it's a much bigger segment of the US population that has bought into corporate capitalism and the legal perversion that is the modern corporation.

And don't doubt that most of the high-profile Democrats are also aboard. Even those who pay lip service to fiscal liberalism.

Corporations became people when the Republican majority SCOTUS deemed them so with the Citizens United decision. It was the final step of our democracy becoming a plutocracy.

It was decided in 1819 in the case of Dartmouth College v. Woodward. That's 35 years before the creation of the Republican party.

Dartmouth College v Woodward involves the Contract Clause of the US Constitution, upholding a corporations rights to enter into contracts the same way persons do and preventing state legislatures from interfering into those contracts. Corporations are not granted the same rights as individuals by the US Constitution. For example, the Supreme Court has not recognized a Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination for a corporation, since that right can be exercised only on an individual basis. Corporations also don't have the right to vote, yet since Citizens United ruling, they are allowed to effect elections through large campaign contributions.

Yes, I'm aware of that. There was no Republican majority on the bench because there was no republican party.

what an interesting era ...eh???

i am assuming...
according to modern "paradigms"...
every vote then was a vote for obama???
lmcao-

They don't have all of our rights YET but as you can tell, they are and have been trying for a long time.

It is obvious that the Republican party is working to destroy our democracy and turn it into a plutocracy, and to that end, they have made much progress. The widening of the gap between the rich and the middle class, the erosion of the campaign finance laws, environmental regulations, civil rights, voting rights, the list goes on and on. We'll see what the Supreme Court decides on the PPACA tomorrow.

I agree.

It is obvious that... you don't understand what type of government you have. What you have is a Republic, "if we can keep it." Your founders refused to form a democracy because democracies fail quickly and die violently. A democracy is nothing more than a tyrannical rule of the majority, which is why they die such violent deaths. In the Utopian idea of a one world government and "new world order" the Democrats will enjoy being clones, accepting only those things that their government allows them to have. If you enjoy your freedom and individuality, then stop listening to politicians and do some research. Try to understand the type of government your forefathers handed you, and then fight to keep it. Try not to make that mistake again, or you will suffer the same fate as the Europeans.

When the right wingers on the Supreme Court decided it!

Never!

Exactly!

The supreme court justices have been poisoned by political actions, as being picked from presidents from both sides. The verdict comes from a political sided division, and has opened the door for money from overseas from people who aren't even cutizens ,and have their own best interest in mind,not ours. we are being ruled by the almighty dollar ,which few of us as citizens will never be able to take part in a real honest voting process again, until this ruling is overturned. I have always voted,but I can see now why some don't go to the polss anymore. It's a black mark for the regular joe, kicking us farther down the ladder to have a voice in our everyday living.

What I wanna know is, when are conservatives gonna become people?

idk. Evolution seems to have chosen a different path for them.

Never.

when the supreme court gave them life.

When did Unions become people? They donate more to Democrats than corporations do to Republicans.

now i know you are lying and some how i think you know you are too.

Actually, they don't have the same protections. Unions can be regulated much more effectively, given the political will to do so.

"Personhood" afforded to the modern corporation is a huge abuse of the law, preventing reasonable regulation and empowering these immortal and mutable entities in ways that no mortal human being could ever compete with. It is really an anti-free market, anti-competitive, anti-human legal policy destined to rob this country of the entrepreneurial spirit that once defined us.

When the Elitists, Lucifarians, or Illuminati decided that it was no longer necessary to hide their efforts and their agenda! WE STILL OUTNUMBER THEM! If the vote still means anything, it behooves us to get away from more of the same. Paul definitely fits that category.

Corporations were created to protect the property of small business people. That is, from high-paid lawyers who would bankrupt the company on legal fees and then destroy the wealth of those who created the company.

Here's a real life example: A couple in Port Orchard, Washington bought into the A&W; franchise. The manager sexually assaulted harassed an employee. He was immediately fired by the parent company--a ma and pa owned corp.. The corporation was sued by the victim. The owners were acquitted at the legal expense of $700,000, which was demanded in full upon their acquittal. Fortunately, the community rallied and the law firm agreed to payments. The community raised enough to give them their first payment.

Had the community not rallied around them they'd have had to declare bankruptcy and 16 people would be out of work--I know, only 16 people--psht--who cares! Right?

Had they not incorporated, a family that had supported charities, schools and events would be bankrupt and unemployed. But who cares about the community life of a nowhere, small town? Right?