9 Feb 2012 11:31 pm
Misty: Cite the SCOTUS ruling where corporations were declared 'people' and were said to be entitled to the same Constitutional rights as individuals.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 .......... 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, 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 suedTulane Law ReviewARTICLE: THE CORPORATION IS A PERSON: THE LANGUAGE OF A LEGAL FICTION.February, 198761 Tul. L. Rev. 563Author SANFORD A. SCHANE ExcerptThe law allows corporations to do some of the things that people do. They may enter into contracts, buy and sell land, commit torts, sue and be sued. Other rights and liabilities are denied. Corporations cannot hold public office, vote in elections, or spend the night in jail. In spite of evident differences between a corporation and a flesh-and-blood human, there are sufficient similarities for the law to treat the corporation as a person. The word "person" as used in a statute will usually be construed to include corporations, so long as such an interpretation fits within the general design and intent of the act. The edification of the corporation to the status of person is one of the most enduring institutions of the law and one of the most widely accepted legal fictions.https://litigation-e...f3393a84e979b81Because if they didn't have Constitutional rights, corporations could be searched without warrants, have its phones tapped, its assets seized, etc. etc. etc.Stunning how little understanding the moonbat left has about American freedom.Well apparently corporations don't have Fifth Amendment rights, Puss.Some have argued in court that corporations should be allowed to refuse to hand over incriminating documents under the Fifth Amendment. In one case, appellants suggested that the use of the word "taxpayer" several times in the regulations requires that the fifth-amendment self-incrimination warning be given to a corporation."However, the court did not agree in United States of America v Steve Sourapas and Crest Beverage Company, a 1975 case.LinkHmmmm....no 5th Amendment rights. That would mean that corporations don't have all the same rights as individuals, wouldn't it Puss?