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> the Fourth Amendment only applies to the government. Source? The way I read it there doesn't seem to be any such restriction. IIRC there weren't corporatio
by alex_young 8y ago
> the Fourth Amendment only applies to the government.
Source? The way I read it there doesn't seem to be any such restriction.
IIRC there weren't corporations in the modern sense when the bill of rights was written.
- wyldfire 8y agoBurdeau v. McDowell
- jcranmer 8y agoThe Constitution is binding only on the government; it is a document that lays out what the United States federal government, and, in a few cases, what the states of the United States can and cannot do. The Bill of Rights is a set of 10 amendments that restrict what the federal government can do with respect to citizens. The 14th amendment extends those restrictions from the federal government to include state governments as well. (Since local governments are considered extensions of the state government's jurisdiction, it's included as well). > IIRC there weren't corporations in the modern sense when the bill of rights was written. The Virginia Company is a corporation in the modern sense that is literally the origin of the United States. Actually, if anything, corporations have gotten less powerful since the Bill of Rights; we don't have any companies running countries any more.
- ceejayoz 8y ago> IIRC there weren't corporations in the modern sense when the bill of rights was written. The Dutch East India Company was a publicly-traded multinational corporation as early as the early 1600s.