Time to Abolish "Corporate Personhood"

 Beginning --

A concept whose time has come and gone

Some time ago I related here the fact that in 1886, a Supreme Court clerk inserted language into a Court opinion's introduction indicating that a corporation has rights under the Constitution. The idea that a corporation -- which after all is a legal fiction -- has the same rights as a living, breathing human being is preposterous on its face.  

And yet, this notion came to be accepted doctrine over a period of years and now hangs like a legal albatross around the necks of every American.  Details about this quite hideous warping of our jurisprudence can be found in this blog's archives, and elsewhere on the Internet.  

 Surely the time has come to send this so-called principle to the political and legal grave where it so richly belongs.  

 

I shall return to this subject in the future.   -- TMP