I never said it was recent. It was done in the last couple of centuries via a series of legal precedents. That is, no-one ever voted for it or legislated it. It

I never said it was recent. It was done in the last couple of centuries via a series of legal precedents. That is, no-one ever voted for it or legislated it. It was done bit by bit by various legal judgements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood#Historical_background_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood#Historica... After the adoption of the 14th Amendment in 1868, there was some question as to whether the Amendment applied to other than freed slaves, and whether its protections could be invoked by corporations and other organizations of persons ...