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Which has nothing or next to nothing to do with Citizens United and the way it freed speech and upheld the Constitution.It wasn't about contributions. It was about advertising one's political opinions; i.e political speech.If corporations have all the same Constitutional rights as individuals, then why don't they have 5th Amendment rights?In a 1975 case, United States of America v Steve Sourapas and Crest Beverage Company, the court ruled that corporations do not have 5th Amendment rights.William Renquist saw the danger of too much corporate money in politics.He wrote this in his dissent in the case of the First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, in which he said that states should be permitted to limit corporate political speech.It cannot be so readily concluded that the right of political expression is equally necessary to carry out the functions of a corporation organized for commercial purposes. A State grants to a business corporation the blessings of potentially perpetual life and limited liability to enhance its efficiency as an economic entity. It might reasonably be concluded that those properties, so beneficial in the economic sphere, pose special dangers in the political sphere. http://reclaimdemocr...nt_bellotti.php