With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones.
The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.
I don't think we should view corporations as people for the purposes of speech.
This OCCUPIED amendment, this constitutional amendment, would overturn Citizens United. It would make clear that corporations aren't people, that they - the framers of the Constitution never intended to give constitutional rights to corporations, the ones that we enjoy and cherish.
Corporations aren't people. They have no brains, no consciences, no capacity for intent or guilt.
The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people.
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.
To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.
Corporations serve an important purpose, but telling people how to vote isn't one of them.
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.