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February 3, 2010
A Brief on Corporations and Electioneering
The arguments so far against the recent Supreme Court decision on corporate "free speech" (that is, buying elections = free speech by corporate "persons") have missed the point. For example, this lame discussion on the otherwise usually intelligent Bill Moyers' Journal podcast.
The personhood of a corporation cannot be exactly equivalent to the personhood of a human being. By law, corporations owe their allegiance entirely and solely to their shareholders. The alleged personhood of a corporation is therefore devoid of any duties, obligations, or responsibilities to the public interest. This condition could be described as sociopathic. Since this condition is explicit, the alleged personhood of corporations must be held to be different from the personhood of human beings and subject by law to different constraints. Among these, corporations must be barred from participation in the fundamental exercise of the public interest, elections of public officials and votes on propositions and amendments to law, including the financing of political election campaigns in any form.
Why is that so hard to square with existing legal philosophy?
The KunstlerCast
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About rebuilding the US Passenger Railroad System
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