On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:37:03 -0400, Kurt Ullman
wrote:

In article ,
Ashton Crusher wrote:

that is exactly why I cannot understand how the Supreme Court could
decide the "corporations are people". I've never seen a corporation
get put in jail for things they do that are far worse then what
individuals do who are sentenced to jail (put out of business) every
day of the week.

Corp legal personhood goes back all the way to the start of the US..
and even back to Jolly Old England. Corps get sued all the time for
various things. That is only because of corporate legal person hood. The
ONLY reason the New York Times gets first amendment protection is
because of the idea corporate personhood. Executives have gone to jail
for their actions as corporate officers and directors (Adelphia Cable
for instance). Corporations have been fined for breaking laws. That is
only possible because of the idea of corporate personhood.


That's true but it's not axiomatic that in order to confer *some*
personhood attributes to a corp one must confer *all*. The
constitution makes no provision to limit the totally of rights
accorded to every citizen when it comes to children yet the courts
rule all the time that children are NOT entitled to the exact same
bundle of rights as non-children. They could have done the same in
the case of corporations and they still can should another case come
before them and they so choose.