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To: Nephi
Artificial persons have the same rights as natural persons. Our free enterprise economy is based on the concept of equal treatment of all persons under the law.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

9 posted on 01/21/2010 8:29:52 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop
Show me where in the constitution it says, "We the corporations..."

From the link in my previous post:

"Thus, with the founding of America, for the first time, only humans could hold rights. Institutions -- churches, civic groups, corporations, clubs, even government itself -- held only privileges. Of course, you'd want government -- that is, We the People through our elected representatives -- to control the privileges of institutions like corporations. And that's what we did. For example, to prevent kingdom-like accumulations of wealth that could, as Jefferson noted, "threaten the state" itself, corporations in the first hundred or so years of this nation couldn't exist longer than 40 years, and then had to be dissolved. Their first purpose had to be to serve the public, and their second purpose to make money. Their books and all their activities had to be fully open and available to inspection by We the People. Their officers and directors could be held personally liable for crimes committed by the corporation."

I can't force you to recognize the threat to our republic that corporate influence of government pose, but you have to have your head in the sand to miss it...

11 posted on 01/22/2010 2:58:56 PM PST by Nephi (freerepublic didn't even embed a campaign against the Huckster, but he's done anyway)
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