> Shiny Happy Corporate People
>
> Richard (RJ) Eskow, Campaign for America's Future: "Mitt Romney got a lot of
> press for telling a heckler at the Iowa State Fair that 'corporations are
> people'... Here's the paradox in this whole concept of 'corporate
> personhood.'
Add to that:
Of the cases in this court in which the Fourteenth Amendment was
applied during its first fifty years after its adoption, less than
one half of one percent invoked it in protection of the Negro
race, and more than fifty percent asked that its benefits be
extended to corporations.
- Justice Hugo Black, 1938
Epigraph for:
http://www.truth-out.org/unequal-protection-unequal-uses-bill-rights/1312898624
Numerous instances of corporations enforcing their putative
constitutional rights as persons.
The core concept of American democracy, as established in the
writings of the Founders, is that all institutions, from churches
that claim to be created by gods to businesses created by the
wealthy or ambitious to the very government itself -- all
institutions -- are authorized by the people to exist and are
answerable to the people for their existence. And, as the
Declaration of Independence notes, when an institution's behavior
"becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People
to alter or to abolish it...as to them shall seem most likely to
effect their Safety and Happiness."
--
Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
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http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^
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