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"END CORPORATE PERSONHOOD"
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Corporations are not people. Our Bill of Rights is for people not corporations. To END CORPORATE PERSONHOOD we need nothing short of a Constitutional Amendment to legally define corporations as different from people. This will restore integrity to our Bill of Rights and will effectively take down the political barricade that stops good ideas right in their tracks.
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This is the single most important thing we can do to pull our country out of the teeth of the multinational corporate monster that is poised to exploit and consume us.
Posted by Leah Sullivan on 01/25/2010 @ 10:00PM PT
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Wes,
A major national campaign to do this is underway. See http://ReclaimDemocracy.org and http://MoveToAmend.org
Posted by Luis O on 01/26/2010 @ 09:11AM PT
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I think the key to ending corporation "personhood" is knowing the difference between corporations and persons. Corporations cannot be one person, but is an AGGREGATE (more than one) person. The corporation is something which has attained immortality, something which is denied to all free individuals (i.e., mortal Beings). So when the courts say that corporations are persons and that they are given the same rights as other persons, get clarification. Are they saying that corproations have the same rights as other aggregate persons or other mortal Being persons? The aggregate person's rights cannot be compared to the mortal Being's rights-- they simply cannot be the same rights.
Posted by Jan Marcus on 01/27/2010 @ 01:32PM PT
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If an individual can only contribute $2,000 (or whatever the maximum donation permitted is), and a corporation is allowed the protections of the individual, why isn't the corporations' contribution limit capped at the same annual donation limit?
Posted by Morris Kahn on 02/04/2010 @ 09:24AM PT
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