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To: epicure who wrote (129634)	1/29/2010 3:07:33 PM
From: Ron	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541967

Folks who think corporations should be treated as people are barking mad in my book. I think a constitutional amendment would go a long way toward restoring democracy in this country. I see at least one corporation plans to run for congress, to take out the middleman. Why spend money on other peoples' campaigns, if you can, as a corporation, just run for office? thinkprogress.org The whole corporation as a person thing is fishy, to begin with. There was most likely some skulduggery in the court when the personhood thing went on the books: In the United States, corporations were recognized as having rights to contract, and to have those contracts honored the same as contracts entered into by natural persons, in Dartmouth College v. Woodward. Corporations were recognized as persons for purposes of the 14th Amendment in an 1886 Supreme Court Case, Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, 118 U.S. 394. Some critics of corporate personhood, such as author Thom Hartmann in his book "Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights," claim that this was an intentional misinterpretation of the case inserted into the Court record by reporter J.C. Bancroft Davis. [1] Bancroft Davis had previously served as president of Newburgh and New York Railway Co. en.wikipedia.org