What should the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution address?

[Beerina]

So are you implying that the individuals involved in forming a corporation lose thier individual rights and privileges after incorporation?
Or merely that as members of a corporation, groups of individuals should receive additional rights and privileges?

Note the implication that they retain exactly the same rights they do as individuals, because it derives from those rights, including the right to free association, is excluded.

Ironically, doing away with "corporate personhood", which I suspect is driven by wanting to censor corporate speech, would make it harder to censor, not easier.


If your philosophy leads you to thinking you have a right forcibly shut other people up, you need to take a hard look in the mirror.

 

[Trakar]

Note the implication that they retain exactly the same rights they do as individuals, because it derives from those rights, including the right to free association, is excluded.

Ironically, doing away with "corporate personhood", which I suspect is driven by wanting to censor corporate speech, would make it harder to censor, not easier.


If your philosophy leads you to thinking you have a right forcibly shut other people up, you need to take a hard look in the mirror.

Your mind reading skills need some work. I've no intention of shutting anyone up, as I've found that encouraging others to espouse their own idiocies is a much more effective method of exposing the flaws and errors of their positions. The purpose of corporations are to shield investors from the personal responsibilities and liabilities of their profit-seeking endeavors. IMO, such entities have no place in our election process.

I've no problem with individuals expressing their opinions, nor with the association of like-minded individuals to express their personal opinions as a group. However, that group does not obtain any rights or privileges in addition to those of its individual members, and is not a "person" with rights in and of itself.

 

[drkitten]

So are you implying that the individuals involved in forming a corporation lose thier individual rights and privileges after incorporation?

The problem is that they retain their rights, but lose their responsibilities.

For example, if I-as-a-corporation borrow money from you, I-as-a-person can walk away from that debt and you have no legal recourse.

 

[leftysergeant]

Corporations are a legal fiction, not persons. They are granted the right to own property and to enter into contracts only because they need to do these things to operate. They do not need to be able to choose political office holders or dissent from specific laws in order to sell a product produced in the least harmful way.

There is no natural reason for them to enjoy the voting rights or free speech rights of a human being as corporations. Their investors still have those rights.

Part of the reason for creating corporations, from a societal point of view, is to set limits for both the actions of the corporation and to limit what government can do to investors.

When corporations become subject to imprisonment for manslaughter, then they will have a legitimate right to participate in politics.