Author Topic: Corporate Personhood  (Read 338 times)

Offline MmmBeefy

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Corporate Personhood
« on: November 05, 2011, 07:57:09 am »
I've had a few people ask me this, so posting for the benefit of the group:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_County_v._Southern_Pacific_Railroad

Here's the link to a summary of the legal case in which corporate personhood was granted.  Note that this wasn't even a Supreme Court decision per se, it was just an assumed statement in the header language.

I know a lot of us are aware of this, just want to make sure we're all in the loop as we expand our messaging. 

Offline tweedbolt

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Re: Corporate Personhood
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2011, 08:13:40 pm »
I believe the biggest thing ending corporate personhood would accomplish is ending this silly notion of limited liability, which in turn, I believe, would go a long way to getting us closer to an actually free market.

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Re: Corporate Personhood
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2011, 04:10:02 pm »
http://occupynashville.org/forum/index.php?topic=867.0

You have the cart before the horse and it doesn't work that way........

The conflicts point inward and are quite convulted.

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Re: Corporate Personhood
« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2011, 11:05:28 am »
Just fyi, there is a thread on the Outreach forum for posting useful links and documentation