>Corporate personhood is a long standing legal principle stretching back at least 400 years to the first joint stock corporations Equating modern corporations

>Corporate personhood is a long standing legal principle stretching back at least 400 years to the first joint stock corporations Equating modern corporations to the limited government granted corporation (permitted only for a limited and explicitly stated purpose [like building a bridge or railroad] in the public benefit) of 400 years ago and the nearly limitless powers of a corporation leveraged out of the 14th Amendment is a bit dishonest. "The Corporation" gave a good summary of how the 14th amendment (passed to protect the rights of the newly freed slaves) was hijacked by corporate lawyers to dismantle the traditional limitations on corporations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qNmV4Iv0GE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qNmV4Iv0GE