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

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Show threadRobert MaguireJan 24, 2023
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

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Show threadShauna GM

@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

Jan 25, 2023 at 4:57amWeb