The Constitution Does not give Corporations any rights. Here’s why

Publicly traded limited liability corporations are creations of state charters, which are creations of the law. They are chartered as “artificial persons.” So a corporation is neither born or naturalized as citizens of the United States in any traditional sense of the word. The 14th Amendment of the Constitution reads as follows:

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

Consequently, the very idea that corporations as artificial persons have constitutional rights is a lie since they are neither born nor naturalized; they are created exactly as any piece of legislation has been.

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We Can End Corporate Personhood Rights

The corrupt corporate wing of the United States Supreme Court has ruled that a publicly traded, limited liability corporation is a person with all of the Constitutional rights of any human citizen, and more. The corporate or Koch Brothers wing of the supreme court is corrupted by big money, or it’s ideologically corrupt, or both. Okay, we know a corporation is a business, not a person, but exactly what are corporations?

A corporation can be defined as a group of investors (shareholders), but the Constitution gives only individual rights. It does not provide group rights. So the court couldn’t reasonably provide legal standing for personhood via this route.

A corporation, however, is really organized money. Investors combine their money, and organize it into a business via state charters. The Constitution does not give “organized money” legal rights.

State charters, however, refer to corporations as “artificial persons.” It’s on this basis that the court has ruled that corporations are persons. This, of course, is bogus, and the members of the court know this.

If we call dogs “imitation persons,” and a town or state provide legal recognition for this to occur, does this mean that dogs are persons with all the constitutional rights as actual citizens? Yes, it does, but only if the dogs possess enough money to influence the courts to make it so, like organized money.

If the court felt obliged to give dogs person-hood rights under this situation, that means you’d have to sit in a restaurant and watch the diner next to you eat their food while occasionally slurping their butt and scratching their fleas. To protect the civil rights of dogs, I mean these four footed persons, humans would need to be allowed to slurp their own butts in restaurants. Otherwise, anybody could sue any restaurant under the equal protection clause of the Constitution’s fourteenth amendment for the right to slurp their rear ends in public.

Fortunately, dogs don’t have sufficient cash to buy off the Supreme Court. So naturally, the court will never give dogs person-hood rights, even if another government body enacts a law calling dogs “imitation persons.” That’s why the concept that a government chartered “artificial person” is a real person is totally bogus. Every member of the Supreme Court knows this.

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25,000 Protest in New York City Right Wing Attacks on Voting Rights

As many as 25,000 people marched in New York City Saturday from the offices of Koch Industries to the United Nations to protest a right-wing effort to roll back voting rights. Koch Industries sponsors organizations that work to rollback voting rights. Many supporters of the Democratic Party are poor, which may be why they are being targeted.

NAACP President Benjamin Jealous helped organize the protest. He said, “We’re here today to stand for freedom in front of the U.N., more than 25,000 people from a range of civil rights and religious and labor organizations all outraged about the massive attack on the right to vote in this country. This year we’ve seen more than 30 states attack the right to vote. We’ve seen 268 electoral votes, of the 270 needed to become president, potentially impacted by these laws. Disproportionately in each case, it’s black people and brown people and students who are being impacted.”

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