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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (64030)	5/7/2008 11:14:51 AM
From: gerard mangiardi	Respond to of 543106

You got it.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (64030)	5/7/2008 2:15:55 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543106

>>Given the attention to the individual in the Constitution and especially the Bill of Rights, it is hard to imagine that the founders ever imagined a corporation as having rights - which they increasingly do. That is not a comforting trend whether a person is on the left or right.<< Steve - The corporation, as a legal entity, didn't exist in its modern form when the Constitution was written. Thus, corporations are not given any kind of special constitutional protection. Yet they do increasingly, as you point out, have special rights within our legal system. I had a discussion about that on one of the conservative threads. I said that corporations have rights that individuals don't have, and that I thought that wasn't just or reasonable. Someone, I forget who, responded that it isn't true that corporations have rights individuals don't have, because any individual who wants to can incorporate himself. That argument pretty much proved my point, I thought. - Allen