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If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones.

The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people.

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.

Corporations aren't people. They have no brains, no consciences, no capacity for intent or guilt.

I don't think we should view corporations as people for the purposes of speech.

With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.

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.

I think corporations and people are very different. People make corporations whatever it is that they're going to be.

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 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.'