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To: TimF who wrote (129605)	1/29/2010 1:48:18 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 541957

It is an issue for me. I don't approve of corporations being treated like persons, and having the rights accorded to persons under our constitution. You may not have a problem with this, but I do. So yes, it IS an issue for me. The only reason corporations are deemed to have this apply to them is because of the prior decisions involving corporate personhood and the whole "legal person" idea surrounding corporations, which, imo, subverts democracy and is just plain stupid in an era when corporations have vast power and overwhelm individual voices. I think no entities should speak. I think people should speak individually in a democracy. And yes, that IS an issue. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." The framers contemplated these would apply to PEOPLE. So of course it's an issue whether or not corporations are considered people. You quote the law and you don't even get the point.

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