Liberal Forum

[quote name='MistyBlue' timestamp='1328808689' post='2434339']Please cite me the part of the Constitution where it says that corporations have the same rights as individual people.[/quote]I have no problem with corporations not being given personhood. That way, there would be no legitimate mechanism to tax the hell out of them. Taxation without representation...... [quote]So why have they enjoyed those rights?Cite the SCOTUS ruling where corporations were declared 'people' and were said to be entitled to the same Constitutional rights as individuals.I won't hold my breath.[/quote]Time to exhale........[quote]U.S. Supreme Court LOUISVILLE, C. & C. R. CO. v. LETSON, 43 U.S. 497 (1844) 43 U.S. 497 (How.) THE LOUISVILLE, CINCINNATI, AND CHARLESTON RAILROAD COMPANY, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. THOMAS W. LETSON, DEFENDANT. January Term, 1844 .......... [size="7"]It is, that a corporation created by and doing business in a particular state, is to be deemed to all intents and purposes as a person[/size], although an artificial person, an inhabitant of the same state, for the purposes of its incorporation, capable of being treated as a citizen of that state, as much as a natural person. Like a citizen it makes contracts, and though in regard to what it may do in some particulars it differs from a natural person, and in this especially, the manner in which it can sue and be sued, it is substantially, within the meaning of the law, a citizen of the state which created it, and where its business is done, for all the purposes of suing and being sued