The posts pretty well cover the point of contention; the Supreme Court, if they take on the case, will make a decision.

The original intent and content of the Fourteenth Amendment has been revised and many sections about life and rights for all citizens have been added.

As noted previously, the document now is quite long, with decisions covering citizens from birth to death, with many footnotes on decisions and Court cases. The original 1868 Amendment is meaningless without the cargo of decisions made by the Court in cases up to the present. The original content quoted by Carol C. is incomplete; clauses dealing with the Confederacy and some other matters are omitted.

The California case and its 'obiter dictum' was only one of several cases involving action by a group or business, as noted in previous posts. Subsequent decisions by the Court has added to the validity of the 'juristic' person, and will not now be reversed, but limits may be defined in subsequent cases.

Read it at the GPO website; there is no practical way to post its content in this thread. It is a 1.1M pdf. (www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/pdf2002/032.pdf- This copy does not include decisions added 2002-2008).

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