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Thread #123659   Message #2725027
Posted By: CarolC
16-Sep-09 - 06:25 PM
Thread Name: BS: Corporate Personhood vs Democracy
Subject: RE: BS: Corporate Personhood vs Democracy
The question is whether corporations have the same "inalienable rights" as human beings (as outlined in our Constitution). If they have the same rights, their funding of political activity is protected as "free speech". This creates most of the problems we have in this country that arise from the ability of corporations to essentially buy our elected officials, and to some extent, also our Supreme Court Justices.

As the article I posted says, it flips the relationship that corporations have with our government from being one in which the corporations are subordinate to the government (the will of the people) to being one in which the government (the will of the people) is subordinate to the corporations.