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How Corporations Gained Personhood

Posted by JacobSloan on March 3, 2011

The Story Of Stuff Project has a brief and breezy animated guide to the concept of corporations as people, beginning with the Founding Fathers and leading up to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. The grinning, clumsy robot used to symbolize corporations is adorable and would make a fantastic plush doll.

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  • http://twitter.com/vaslittlecrow Vas Littlecrow W

    As per usual, Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad is ignored. Until someone addresses that Supreme Court ruling, more rulings like Citizens United are going to continue happen.

  • Anonymous

    The unintended consequences from which we are seeing the destruction of the republic.

  • http://www.nickmeador.org/ ndmeador

    I also recommend the documentary “The Coporation”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pin8fbdGV9Y

  • Anonymous

    Life, Inc. by Douglas Rushkoff. A must read.

  • Anonymous

    You beat me to it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_County_v._Southern_Pacific_Railroad . The 14th Amendment has done a lot of damage. It makes people equal, alright. Equally enslaved, “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States, where no jurisdiction had existed before. With this case it made the corporation equal to a person:

    “In opening the Court stated that it did not wish to hear argument on the question whether the Fourteenth Amendment applies to such corporations as are parties in these suits. All the Judges were of the opinion that it does.”

    Citizens United v. FEC rests on this foundation.

  • Anonymous

    Why doesn’t this idiot just vote for a 3rd party? With info being free (gotta love the internet) it should take hardly any money to run for office if people were smart enough to research these things on their own and just just sit passively by while other people tell them who to vote for. You get the government you deserve, problem is it is forced on the rest of us too.

  • http://www.libertyguys.org LibertyVini

    Hazy thinking here. The Federal government is NOT a democracy, it is the incorporation of a democratic republic.

  • http://www.libertyguys.org LibertyVini

    Hazy thinking here. The Federal government is NOT a democracy, it is the incorporation of a democratic republic.

  • http://www.libertyguys.org LibertyVini

    And almost NO ONE is angry about Citizens United, besides liberal policy
    wonks. And they seem to be implying that NONE of this crap happened before it

  • Fightingmanatees

    She misstated the holding in Citizens United. Talk about disinformation.

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