Corporate personhood is the legal notion that a corporation, separately from its associated human beings (like owners, managers, or employees), has some, but not all, of the legal rights and responsibilities enjoyed by natural persons (physical humans). For example, corporations have the right to enter into contracts with other parties and to sue or be sued in court in the same way as natural persons or unincorporated associations of persons.
Corporate personhood in the United States
As a matter of interpretation of the word "person" in the Fourteenth Amendment, U.S. courts have extended certain constitutional protections to corporations. Some opponents of corporate personhood seek to amend the U.S. Constitution to limit these rights to those provided by state law and state constitutions.
The basis for allowing corporations to assert protection under the U.S. Constitution is that they are organizations of people, and the people should not be deprived of their constitutional rights when they act collectively. In this view, treating corporations as "persons" is a convenient legal fiction which allows corporations to sue and to be sued, provides a single entity for easier taxation and regulation, simplifies complex transactions that would otherwise involve, in the case of large corporations, thousands of people, and protects the individual rights of the shareholders as well as the right of association.
They are for the corporate folks ...FEC and inform your federal and state legislators of the need to rescind “corporate personhood” and restore our democracy.
But equally staggering are developments in our schools and universities, where students whine that challenging their views is a form of harm, that intellectual discomfort is trauma, that disagreement invalidates their personhood.
... immediate action to stop global warming, an end to predatory foreign policy (Iraq, etc.), genuine immigration reform, an end to corporate personhood, and more widespread employee-owned companies.
Corporations are not people, however the Supreme Court of the United States gave them "corporate personhood," which is now effectively equivalent to the legal status of actual human citizens.
The Left should begin with the reasonable demand that if corporations enjoy personhood under the law, they ought to face analogous consequences when they do something wrong.
... that the regulatory body is "violating core Constitutional protections of free speech and due process" afforded to SpaceX — which, is a valid argument thanks to the doctrine of corporate personhood.
... as corporations receive -- with the protection of the rights of personhood Restoring natural grasslands and wetlands where possible, and making it law for existing wetlands to be protected.
... supporters of VFP’s calls to stop the war on Gaza and of Move to Amend’s We the People Amendment, HJR54 that will end the insane doctrines of corporate “personhood” and money is the same as speech.
"The lake has its own rights. The lake is a living being." ... It describes a long list of symptoms ... The courts already recognize non-human entities such as corporations as persons. Personhood has also been claimed for two Canadian rivers ... 19, 2024 ... .
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... personhood rights ... Supreme Court to declare corporate personhood, which would bring corporations the protections of the new 14th Amendment ... Corporate personhood is the fiction that property is a person.
Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) brought up the consequential concept of corporate personhood in the Thursday Senate Finance Committee meeting. “We all know that a corporation is a legal document ... So corporations don't pay taxes.
They can then make small changes like enshrining the right of billionaires and corporations to bribe judges and politicians, or insert the doctrine of corporate personhood into the document, or simply throw the whole thing out and start over.
It posits that corporations have only one responsibility ...Supreme Court's recent rulings that give corporations more power by chopping away at the "administrative state." ... If corporations have the rights of personhood, as the U.S.
