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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 10 2013 @ 08:57 AM EST |
"Ahh, so it's: "We've talked you into moving the goalposts one inch,
so now
we're going to ask for another two" repeated for a few miles?"
That's not exactly how it started. It wasn't just the corporations that were
pushing for what corporate personhood started as.
The limited liability of shareholders is older than corporate personhood. Prior
to corporate personhood an individual who was wronged by a corporation would
have to track down and sue each shareholder individually for that shareholder's
limited piece of the corporations liability to the individual.
Much easier to sue the corporation itself and the corporation often has deeper
pockets than the shareholders, but without the legal fiction of corporate
personhood you can't sue a corporation.
I will agree though that once it was in place every once in a while some
corporation would try to push the envelope just a little farther until we get to
the mess that it is today.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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