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Corporations have not always been persons under the law.

• saraid216 14y ago
  94% of the lifetime of the law itself, and inspired by British practices, is pretty close to "always" for me. I went looking for a history of USC Title 1 Section 1, but I couldn't find anything, and I think that numbering system was only set up in 1920 anyways. Again, I'm not an expert in this field. I could totally be wrong. But you're going to have to be a little more convincing than "No it's not" to overrule Wikipedia.
  • khuey 14y ago
    The modern understanding of corporate personhood (that "equal protection of the laws" applies to non-natural persons) is generally dated to Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company in 1888. I don't know where "94% of the lifetime of the law itself" and "inspired by British practices" come from, so I can't really dispute those.