Correction: corporations are not persons under the law. Corporate personhood is a notion that gives corporations some, but not all, of the rights of humans (e.g

Correction: corporations are not persons under the law. Corporate personhood is a notion that gives corporations some, but not all, of the rights of humans (e.g. to enter into a contract). (It's frequently said that the Citizens United ruling completed the legal equivalence of corporations and people, but that is not true.)