Quick and Dirty Background: In the 1886 case of Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company, the SCOTUS ruled that a corporation is a person and entitled to the legal rights and protections afforded to any person by the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. The decision was made on the premise that states could not deny equal protection to any person within its jurisdiction, but corporations have since used their identification as persons to argue for the expansion of all sorts of rights, including the right to “free speech” which they claim would be denied by legislation limiting corporate donations to political candidates.
All that said, Shaker Jeff wants to know what you think about the Democrats proposing a Constitutional amendment delineating that corporations are not persons and financial contributions of any sort are not speech.
Abstractly, do you support it? Concretely, could something like that pass? What are your thoughts? Have at it.
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