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Honest question from someone with little context: How does this argument not also apply to Citizen's United, or corporate personhood more generally? Is the argu
by chabons 4y ago
Honest question from someone with little context: How does this argument not also apply to Citizen's United, or corporate personhood more generally? Is the argument that compelling a corporation to do something compels the individuals within the organization (infringing on their rights), while not giving an organization a right does not infringe upon the individuals rights (which they can exercise individually instead)?
- woodruffw 4y agoYep, pretty much that. I think a good way to think about it is as a leaky abstraction: for many purposes, it makes sense (and is very convenient) to treat a corporation as a person. It saves us a lot of ink! But that corporate person is not a natural person, so it doesn't have natural rights. Instead, it has only the synthetic rights that are extended to it through law.