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    Default Re: Yeah for Corporate Personhood!

    Quote Originally Posted by SCOTUS
    The First Amendment prohibits Congress from fining or
    jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for engaging in political
    speech, but Austin’s antidistortion rationale would permit the Gov
    ernment to ban political speech because the speaker is an association
    with a corporate form. Political speech is “indispensable to decision
    making in a democracy, and this is no less true because the speech
    comes from a corporation.”
    Makes sense to me.

    From what I see, corporate personhood is tangential to the issue. Corporations are, simply put, associations of citizens and there's no constitutional basis for denying these groups First Amendment rights. The decision isn't saying that corporations get First Amendment protection because they are corporations- it's saying that free speech can't be denied on the basis of being a corporation as opposed to any other group of citizens.

    I'm glad to see McCain-Feingold weakened.

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    Quote Originally Posted by drone View Post
    This. With the restriction of for-profit ownership/contributions to these non-commercial entities, of course.
    It's worth noting that the corporation in this decision was a non-profit.
    Last edited by Xiahou; 01-22-2010 at 02:44.
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