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The Constitution and its amendments are designed to protect citizens from the government, not from private corporations. There may be other laws preventing this
by benmanns 13y ago
The Constitution and its amendments are designed to protect citizens from the government, not from private corporations. There may be other laws preventing this sort of credit reporting, but the Constitution does not.
- jbail 13y agoI don't think that's totally correct. "...in Pembina Consolidated Silver Mining Co. v. Pennsylvania - 125 U.S. 181 (1888), the Court clearly affirmed the doctrine, holding, "Under the designation of 'person' there is no doubt that a private corporation is included [in the Fourteenth Amendment]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
- tedunangst 13y agohuh? All that says is that corporations enjoy the same protections from government that people do. It doesn't say anything about protecting people from corporations.