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HereSince1628

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11. That's the essential double dipping nature of corporate personhood

Reply to bigtree (Reply #6)

Tue Jul 1, 2014, 04:15 PM

Jul 2014

A corporation is a group of people, each with rights as individuals.

Granting the group personhood in addition moves some people the rights of citizens plus the privilege of investor, controlling investors essentially have personhood plus ultra

That's a model for royal feudal society

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Big flaw in Hobby Lobby decision is in assuming 'corporate personhoods' can hold religious belief [View all] bigtree Jul 2014 OP

Brilliant cerveza_gratis Jul 2014 #1

This seems a step toward sovereign corporations HereSince1628 Jul 2014 #5

granted two sets of speech rights bigtree Jul 2014 #6

That's the essential double dipping nature of corporate personhood HereSince1628 Jul 2014 #11

but the courts have long held that corporations have such rights unblock Jul 2014 #2

Religion is a belief. MohRokTah Jul 2014 #8

I assume God looks like a giant Walmart sense she made us in her image. Johonny Jul 2014 #3

If the owner's religion "extends" to the corporation ... dawg Jul 2014 #4

Exactly - ohheckyeah Jul 2014 #7

There's going to be a lawsuit about just that. Count on it. MohRokTah Jul 2014 #9

right, they should have relinquished their corporate personhood bigtree Jul 2014 #10

They were in such a hurry to grab a victory... Xolodno Jul 2014 #12