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Old 05-09-2007, 03:38 PM  
The Sultan Of Smut
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Originally Posted by baddog View Post
No, corporations are not people. Individuals can incorporate, but that does not make the corporation a person, just the opposite.

And there is nothing dumb about doing that.
The point was that if it's dumb so extend rights granted to a person to an ape then I can't see how it's not also dumb to extend these same rights to a corporation.

"Corporations were established in constitutional law as 'persons' within the meaning of the 14th Amendment."

http://www.answers.com/topic/santa-c...cific-railroad

That article doesn't really discuss how the corporation is a jurisdictional person which is consisted of a group of natural persons so maybe there's a better article out there.
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