Robert MaguireJan 24, 2023
Fun Fact: The whole idea of corporate personhood is built on a lie that the drafters of the 14th amendment intentionally changed "citizens" to "persons" in order to include corporations. In reality, corporations were never considered in the amendment's drafting or ratification.
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RT @SenatorTester
Today, I’m introducing my Corporations Are Not People Amendment—a constitutional amendment to overturn the disastrous Citizens United de…
https://twitter.com/SenatorTester/status/1617594184080437248
Senator Jon Tester on Twitter

“Today, I’m introducing my Corporations Are Not People Amendment—a constitutional amendment to overturn the disastrous Citizens United decision.”

Twitter
Show threadRobert Maguire
It's wild to think that there's well over a century of US jurisprudence—including Citizens United—that relies on a lie a guy told the Supreme Court in the 1860s https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/03/corporations-people-adam-winkler/554852/
‘Corporations Are People’ Is Built on a 19th-Century Lie

How a farcical series of events in the 1880s produced an enduring and controversial legal precedent

The Atlantic
Jan 24, 2023 at 7:34pmWeb
Show threadRobert MaguireJan 24, 2023
The 14th Amendment was supposed to secure the rights of newly freed slaves, but it actually ended up becoming a huge boon to corporations, thanks to this guy's lie about a journal that was fake
Show threadRobert MaguireJan 24, 2023
So anyway, yeah, corporate personhood should definitely be done away with because it was never actually meant to exist
Show threadBasmithartsJan 25, 2023
@RobertMaguire I think I remember reading that he was having an affair with the Chief Justice's married daughter at the time too.
Show threadE.T.Jan 24, 2023
@RobertMaguire Unbelievable.
Show threadGregory HaysJan 25, 2023
@RobertMaguire Stare Deceptis
Show threadBarry ParrJan 25, 2023
@RobertMaguire I've been listening to These Truths on audiobook and literally learned this last night.
Show threadStatistically HumanJan 25, 2023
@RobertMaguire is there any good movement around ending corporate personhood? I know there’s a amendment proposed in the house, but I don’t see a lot of energy or activism around it. It kinda shocks me - it seems like one of the biggest drivers of our current dysfunction. I don’t even know how to # tag it. #CompaniesArentPeople?
Show threadJohn McLarenJan 25, 2023

@StatisticallyHuman @RobertMaguire One thing is that Jon Tester is introducing a bill in the Senate.

https://twitter.com/SenatorTester/status/1617594184080437248?s=20&t=c0YwLqYGdM6dnFLVNd8M1g

Senator Jon Tester on Twitter

“Today, I’m introducing my Corporations Are Not People Amendment—a constitutional amendment to overturn the disastrous Citizens United decision.”

Twitter
Show threadShauna GMJan 25, 2023

@RobertMaguire

I read about this in Winkler's book We the Corporations and I have been bringing up whenever possible ever since.

Also I was double checking that the article you cite and the book I read were written by the same guy, and I discovered he once played the son of Robert de Niro and Liza Minelli in a movie. That's an actual fun fact, as opposed to a fact that makes one incandescent with rage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Winkler

Adam Winkler - Wikipedia

Show threadEfi (nap pet) 🦊💤Jan 25, 2023
@RobertMaguire ah, yes, finally... the cyberpunk dystopia we deserve was real all along
Show threadluvadergolderJan 25, 2023
@efi @RobertMaguire Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson is a prophetic vision.
Show threadAdamas NemesisJan 25, 2023
@RobertMaguire Wild.