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To: Talisker

I get what your saying but can you explains Citizens United then in this context where freedom of speech is accorded to corporate personhood?


11 posted on 03/25/2014 9:20:31 PM PDT by JPX2011
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To: JPX2011

Stop quoting the left’s parody version of Citizens United. The majority’s reasoning did not depend on the legal fiction that a corporation is a person — only one of the dissenters mentioned the notion of a corporation as a juridical person in a snarky passage attacking the majority’s holding. The majority held that the right of people to engage in political speech is not somehow attenuated or abolished by virtue of the people organizing into a corporation. The right of a corporation to engage in political speech is the right of its shareholders (or members) to engage in political speech. The same ought to apply here: the right of free exercise of religion is not somehow attenuated or abolished by virtue of the fact the natural persons engage in commerce as a corporation.


39 posted on 03/25/2014 9:54:23 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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