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If the corporation is under 35 years of age, it can't run for president. Sorry, startups!

sophacles 17y ago
Corporations aren't natural born, and therefore can never be president. Although if we repeal the natural born requirement we can finally see Arnold run against Cyberdyne (and this time its for the presidency!...).
- Goronmon 17y ago
  No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. I'm pretty sure all you have to prove is that a corporation isn't a "person" or a "citizen".
  - sophacles 17y ago
    First of all, the whole point of the company doing this is that coporations are persons according to the law. I know nothing of citizenship of corporations. Second, I was replying to the poster talking about presidency, not to the company's bid for congress. The relevant bits for president are No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; The specific word being natural. The basis for corporations being granted personhood the same as a human being is the lack of the word natural in the relevant bits of the US constitution.
    - Goronmon 17y ago
      Are you sure it's that they "are" persons or just they are considered to have rights similar to the rights a person has? Seems like a pretty important distinction.
      - sophacles 17y ago
        Corporations are legal persons. This is not the same a human beings which are natural persons. The defining issues in corporate law came from the anti-slavery amendments to the US constitution. All hinged around the usage of the term natural person vs the term person. Edit: this means that the generic person covers both natural persons and legal persons
  - potatolicious 17y ago
    > "I'm pretty sure all you have to prove is that a corporation isn't a "person" or a "citizen"." All of this really sounds like a lazy engineer inherited from the wrong class...
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- jonursenbach 17y ago
  You don't say.

Corporations aren't natural born, and therefore can never be president. Although if we repeal the natural born requirement we can finally see Arnold run against Cyberdyne (and this time its for the presidency!...).

Goronmon 17y ago
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. I'm pretty sure all you have to prove is that a corporation isn't a "person" or a "citizen".
- sophacles 17y ago
  First of all, the whole point of the company doing this is that coporations are persons according to the law. I know nothing of citizenship of corporations. Second, I was replying to the poster talking about presidency, not to the company's bid for congress. The relevant bits for president are No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; The specific word being natural. The basis for corporations being granted personhood the same as a human being is the lack of the word natural in the relevant bits of the US constitution.
  - Goronmon 17y ago
    Are you sure it's that they "are" persons or just they are considered to have rights similar to the rights a person has? Seems like a pretty important distinction.
    - sophacles 17y ago
      Corporations are legal persons. This is not the same a human beings which are natural persons. The defining issues in corporate law came from the anti-slavery amendments to the US constitution. All hinged around the usage of the term natural person vs the term person. Edit: this means that the generic person covers both natural persons and legal persons
- potatolicious 17y ago
  > "I'm pretty sure all you have to prove is that a corporation isn't a "person" or a "citizen"." All of this really sounds like a lazy engineer inherited from the wrong class...

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jonursenbach 17y ago
You don't say.