The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people.
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I think corporations and people are very different. People make corporations whatever it is that they're going to be.
I don't think we should view corporations as people for the purposes of speech.
Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation.
If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones.
With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.
It cannot be said that the Constitution formed 'the people of the United States,' for all time, into a corporation. It does not speak of 'the people' as a corporation, but as individuals. A corporation does not describe itself as 'we,' nor as 'people,' nor as 'ourselves.' Nor does a corporation, in legal language, have any 'posterity.'
In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.
It's crazy that the Constitution has to be amended to clarify what for the majority of Americans is a clear and true statement: corporations are not people.
Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.
Corporations aren't people. They have no brains, no consciences, no capacity for intent or guilt.