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> although actually many people on here are American so I guess for you aws is legally a person... Corporate legal personhood is actually older than Christiani
by dragonwriter 1y ago
> although actually many people on here are American so I guess for you aws is legally a person...
Corporate legal personhood is actually older than Christianity, and it being applied to businesses (which were late to the game of being allowed to be corporations) is still significantly older than the US (starting with the British East India Company), not a unique quirk of American law.
- fennecbutt 1y agoOh I didn't how that, thanks for the lesson. Tbf it just sounds...so American, so I assumed, my bad. But East India Company was involved...whew I guess that does make sense, oof.
- dragonwriter 1y agoWhat is unique in the US is the interaction between corporate personhood and our First Amendment and the way that our courts have applied that to limit political campaign finance laws, and a lot of “corporate personhood” controversy is really about that, not actually about corporate personhood as a broad concept.
- sarchertech 1y agoPeople also get confused about the Citizens United ruling. It had nothing to do with corporate personhood. The ruling said that since a person has first amendment rights, those same rights extend to a group of people—any group—whether it’s a non profit organization, a corporation, or something else.
- BirAdam 1y agoWell, it's also what allows the executives, boards, and owners of companies to be divorced from the consequences of their actions in a legal sense much of the time.
- LtWorf 1y agoSource of it being older than christianity?