The Supreme Court has never ruled that corporations are people. They ruled that corporations have 1st amendment protections. But yes, that was exactly the type of substance-free hot take I’m talking about.
The Supreme Court has never ruled that corporations are people.
“Under the designation of ‘person’ there is no doubt that a private corporation is included.” Pembina Consolidated Silver Min. & Milling Co. v. Pennsylvania, 125 U.S. 181 (1888).
Among others. That corporations are people has never really been substantially in dispute (legal personhood is fairly expressly the central point of the corporate form as an innovation where partnerships already existed), though whether particular references to person, persons, or people in the law are intended to refer to all legal persons or only specifically to natural persons is sometimes in dispute.
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They can’t act as individuals. This is a falsehood perpetuated by people who want to make witty hot takes.
God damn the Supreme Court and their perpetuating of falsehoods with witty hot takes.
The Supreme Court has never ruled that corporations are people. They ruled that corporations have 1st amendment protections. But yes, that was exactly the type of substance-free hot take I’m talking about.
“Under the designation of ‘person’ there is no doubt that a private corporation is included.” Pembina Consolidated Silver Min. & Milling Co. v. Pennsylvania, 125 U.S. 181 (1888).
Among others. That corporations are people has never really been substantially in dispute (legal personhood is fairly expressly the central point of the corporate form as an innovation where partnerships already existed), though whether particular references to person, persons, or people in the law are intended to refer to all legal persons or only specifically to natural persons is sometimes in dispute.