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Corporate personhood has been challenged in supreme court
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FUCKING FINALLY!!!!! For those that don't know, in the late 1800s, corporate lawyers perverted the Bill of Rights by pushing through the idea that corporations should be allowed the legal status of "person", thus allowing corporations constitutional rights. They gave a thing constitutional rights. Let me put it this way, compared to corporate personhood, George W. Bush was one of the most brilliant and capable defenders of the constitution in history. Finally, finally, this absurd idea is being challenged in from of the Supreme Court. This is one of those pivotal moments when we find out if the US government is ultimately good or bad. If the SCOTUS upholds coprorate personhood, now would be a great time to check out the Canadian classifieds. If they realize the insanity of the concept and choose to overturn the idea, there may be hope yet. This is a huge deal, so don't expect to see it on the news. |
You may not realize this but Corporations have similar rights in Canada as well.
And I agree, it is a strange thing that an entity can have these sorts of rights. |
It makes sense that a corporation can not be a "person" seeing as you can't make a corporation face trial and put it in prison. You can, however, put a person in trial and make him/her face jail time so I really don't see what the difference will be.
With or without these rights corporations are not separate entities to people financially speaking hence the govt. will continue to run and function to the best of the corporations interests. I call a waste of time. |
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Those who are interested in this topic should watch the film, The Corporation. It cover this quite well.
You can also view the film (in 23 chapters) on You Tube - It's interesting to watch given that it was produced a few years ago during the time of Enron's collapse and given today's economic woes. |
I'm against corporate personhood, but I'm not really sure how this case can be seen as a good thing right now. With the current supreme court, the outcome is practically predetermined, and their eventual ruling in support of corporate personhood will mean it will be decades before the possibility for change comes again. I'd much rather see this happen 10 years from now with (hopefully) a more receptive supreme court.
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I can predict how this will turn out...
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Reallllly, do tell.
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Let me start by saying, a corporation should not be allowed to give one penny to any political campaign.
Having said that, I do find it amusing that this "... is contrary to the words, history, spirit and intent of our Constitution,” HOWEVER, whenever libertarians use that argument against federally sponsored healthcare, car bailouts, takeover of banks, etc. - somehow the Constitution covers all of that. |
Corporate personhood debate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
this is a good summary of the history and nature of the broader debates over this question. it's pretty interesting. |
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Who makes the pennies if not the corporations? Who runs the corporations if not the same people that are in office? |
Corporate personhood, more than any other issue, is why I consider myself a liberal rather than a conservative. It is a perversion of the intentions of the founding fathers, and a fucking disgrace.
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corporate personhood is all due to the living constitution though, right? it evolves to suit the times? government can alter things in order to govern as societies grow?
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i was rather hoping that the illusion did not take shape in the thread that all arguments concerning what is or is not "in the spirit of the constitution" entail some bizarre-o strict construction/original intent kinda posture.
the language is itself pretty standard ways of arguing. the strict construction position is only one of a wide range of options that such language can be inserted into. context. it kinda matters. sheesh. |
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Right. The context matters as soon as it suits your views. The article referenced in the OP is the one that brings up the spirit of the Constitution, not us. ---------- Post added at 03:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:55 PM ---------- Quote:
Furthermore: Rather than corporate money going to improve wage, safety or efficiency: it is used to further the corporation politically. This circumvents the free market where the company must survive on its own merits. That's why I don't believe corporations should be allowed to engage politically as an entity. |
there are the contexts that empirically obtain, like those in this actual case, and those which you mistakenly impute to it.
they're different. and it's easy to check. you might, for example, read the wiki page on the debate about corporate personhood i linked above and tell me where the strict construction line enters into it. or you might look at the press blurb of the amicus brief: http://www.clementsllc.com/home/What...rporations.pdf all you have to do is look at the actual context and not rely on your ability to rip a few sentences out of context and impose whatever you like on them. |
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A corporation is not a person, per se, so it can't vote or require healthcare. BUT, following the same bane, won't the "corporations" demand they not be taxed if they are not going to be treated like people?
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They aren't being charged with the same taxes that individuals are (and vice versa)
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In France you don't have lobbies, corporations can't fund campaigns or special interests, and every politician in a political race gets equal airtime/billboard space/exposure in general. That's the law, and in general I think it's applied pretty well. So it can work, and corporate competition isn't thrown out the window. I'm not saying it's a better system, but I think it's wrong that you can have a louder voice when you have a bigger wallet. Sorry if this was slightly off topic. On the issue of corporate personhood, I don't think it should be that way. |
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now that. cimmaron, i agree with. a fine idea. i wonder how big the jackets would have to be though. most i expect would be dwarfed by them.
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I was under the impression squeezing corporations ultimately hurts consumers. |
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Look at it this way: if the Constitution never changed, black people wouldn't have a full vote. If the Constitution does change (and it does), there's the possibility that the corrupt can change it. That's where the "eternal vigilance" comes into the equation. |
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if you know this history, then you know it is a document of, for, and by the people. ---------- Post added at 05:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:52 PM ---------- Quote:
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No, seriously, that's what they do. The judicial branch is responsible for interpreting the law. The executive enforces, the legislative creates, and we the people vote.
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The buck stops at 'the people' and always will. If it doesn't we have the document called the declaration of independence to fall back on and have the obligation to alter or abolish the current system of government. With that being said I've never been fond of the 'corporate veil'. This system is enabled too easily by the lobbyists and government cooperation. This system goes against the idea of 'free market' in my opinion contrary to most conservatives. |
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Section 2, Article 3.
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i'm with samcol on this still. it doesn't change what I said. |
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Section 2, Article 3 describes the roll of the Supreme Court, and it doesn't seem to fit the description listed here.
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I'm for both the ability for the Supreme Court to make prudent and up-to-date decisions so long as they fall within an honest interpretation of the law AND the ability of we the people to override laws in the interest of justice as jurors. I don't lose any sleep over it because I don't see the positions as contradictory.
Here's the thing: Roe v. Wade is basically the most known court case in the history of the Supreme Court, right? According to your understanding of the role of the Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade couldn't really happen. We'd need an amendment, but we don't have the votes, which in that case would be tyranny of the majority. |
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Glad to see this is finally being challenged. Corprate Personhood is a market distortion of unbelievable scope, and primarily responsible for much, if not most, of the difficulties in which we find ourselves today. Eliminate that, and you eliminate all possibility of these hyper-expensive bailouts, not to mention atrocities such as denounced by Maj. Smedley Butler which have continued from his day to ours, simply by removing the Corporation's ability to interact with the Gov't. and making individual stockholders and company officials personally liable for their malfeasances and malpractices. Can you imagine someone actually being able to sue Halliburton or Blackwater Directors personally, without the shield of Corporate Personhood and the Corporation's deep pockets and Gov't connections to hide behind? No more plausible deniability, Mr. Prince, you murdering mercenary bastard! Finally. |
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It is interesting how you follow one side of the symbiotic relationship, but not the other. The existence of the Fed and the FDIC is an even larger distortion of the market. When these companies know that every risky transaction they engage in are insured by the feds, they have no problem giving homes to the unemployed. Hence, the Fed can push a political policy into reality through insuring what stockholders would never insure (through their investments). The normal free market would never take the risk that the Fed affords them. Simply put, it works both way - keep the free market (corps) out of the government and the government out of the free market. |
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