2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Who would pick the BEST Supreme Court Justices? Bernie Or Hill ? [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)... that should only be accorded to natural persons. This isn't about the 1st amendment. It is what is a "person" and who has rights that are designed for NATURAL (not artificial) persons that has been construed by corrupted court officials such as the ex-railroad exec court clerk that tried to infer that the Supreme Court ruled in that "landmark case" that supposedly gave corporations rights of natural persons then.
If we want to give corporations and other NON-HUMAN entities (that in most other parts of our constitution are referred to as artificial persons) certain rights, there should be separate legislation apart from things like the Bill of Rights that give them their own set of rights. That is where organizations can be given equivalent or even more rights than corporations do as the ARTIFICIAL persons they are.
This mess started when the 14th amendment wasn't as specific as it should have been when in one paragraph it referred to "persons" without qualifying it as "natural persons" which it was designed to be about, since it was an amendment trying to give discriminated against immigrants and minority natural persons certain rights that they might not otherwise have gotten. The corporate corruptors have over time tried to use that to give us a fascist state with corporations (and those who own them) more rights than the rest of us. And those that try to rationalize that corporate personhood is justified because some "rights" can be applied to other organizations are falling in to their trap either stupidly or complicitly.