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What is Corporate
Personhood?
Slavery is the legal
fiction that a person is property. Corporate Personhood is the legal
fiction that property is a person.
-- Jan Edwards and Molly Morgan, Women's International League for Peace
and Freedom (WILPF)
Under current
U.S. law, corporations are persons, just like you and me. In the past
100 years they've acquired many rights that were designed for people:
- 1st Amendment free
speech rights
- 4th Amendment
protection against search and seizure
- 5th Amendment
protection against self-incrimination
- 14th Amendment
guarantees of equal protection
More Information on
Corporate Personhood
Follow these links to
learn more about Corporate Personhood:
Examples
of corporations manipulating the rights intended for living people.
The
origins and effects of Corporate Personhood.
Some
online articles about Corporate Personhood.
Abstracts
of some articles about Corporate Personhood.
Books
about Corporate Personhood.
Movies about Corporate Personhood.
White
Papers on the effect of Corporate Personhood on other Issues.
Once you have learned
what Corporate Personhood is, you can follow these links:
What
you can do about Corporate Personhood.
What
other organizations are doing about Corporate Personhood.
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