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Corporations definitely count as legal persons, with obligations and rights. This gave us the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310, i c

• worik 3y ago
  > Corporations definitely count as legal persons, with obligations and rights. I am not a lawyer, I am cynical Corporations count as legal persons when it benefits them
  • ant6n 3y ago
    True. When’s the last time a corporation had to go to prison.
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• staller 3y ago
  It even predates Citizens United, 1 U.S. Code § 1 (introduced by The Dictionary Act in 1871) defines Corporations as people. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/1/1 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/1/1
  • JumpCrisscross 3y ago
    > even predates Citizens United It goes back to 1886 [1]. Ditching corporate personhood just makes the law convoluted for no gain. (Oh, you forgot to say corporations in your murder or fraud statute? Oh no!) [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
• renegade-otter 3y ago
  It gives rights, not obligations, which makes Citizens United so abhorrent. It's a dark money vehicle, and worse - foreign dark money. Just on the face of it its ridiculous, but alas, laws are made by the ultra rich. A corporation has the right to "speech" but if crimes are committed, rest assured it will not go to jail, and neither will its executives, protected by layers of legal indirection of this "person corporation".