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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 07 2013 @ 06:47 PM EST |
"never around when the accounting is due"
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 08 2013 @ 09:41 AM EST |
"But there lies the problem: those papers are *never* the corporation, and
the
corporate "person" that they represent is nothing but an artificial
construct useful when buying politicians and other such behaviour, but never
around when the accounting is due."
No, the case will not prove his point. What it will prove is that neither he
nor you have any understanding of the history behind corporate personhood.
Corporate personhood was originally created as a legal fiction for the purposes
of legal standing before the courts in contract and tort cases. Without this a
corporation could be neither a plaintiff nor a defendant in any lawsuit.
Most of the problems with corporate personhood today stem from two issues. At
the time it was first done corporations were not immortal. Somewhere along the
line the courts forgot that it was a legal fiction.
If you try to undo corporate personhood without understanding the history and
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