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Corporate personhood includes the ability for corporations to own property, enter contracts, and serve as plaintiff or defendant. And corporations have civil r
by Strang 3y ago
Corporate personhood includes the ability for corporations to own property, enter contracts, and serve as plaintiff or defendant.
And corporations have civil rights only as a tool of shareholders' civil rights. For example, Citizens United was a corporation formed expressly for the purposes of political speech.
- moate 3y agoCorporate personhood is a way for a “corporation” to take responsibility for the actual humans that comprise is. It’s a passing of responsibility from the real to the unreal. All founders/CEOs should be responsible for their creations. You want to helm a massive, un-democratic monster of “innovation and job creation” in order to accrue wealth? Fine, but you’re putting yourself at a major risk.
- tomoyoirl 3y agoIt sounds like you are confusing corporate personhood with limited liability.