Seems to me that the relevance of personhood for corporations is that corporations are granted the rights of free speech that are given to corporeal beings (individual humans), but they are not expected to exhibit the responsibility for their speech or actions in the same way as humans. True, corporations are comprised of individuals acting in consort, and are not fictional. But they are not real in the sense of individual humans, either. When was the last time that the management, directors, shareholders, vendors and lawyers of a corporation incarcerated en masse for murder or treason?
Dan Scanlan
