Comments on: “Corporate personhood is not the enemy” https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/10/corporate-personhood-enemy/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 28 Oct 2013 21:35:48 +0000 hourly 1 By: Stewart Peterson https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/10/corporate-personhood-enemy/comment-page-1/#comment-243012 Mon, 28 Oct 2013 21:35:48 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=42160#comment-243012 My favorite response: “Greenpeace is a corporation.”

“But…but…it’s not the same thing…”

“Really? You’re going to prevent one group of people from creating an organization to pool their resources to make a political point, while allowing others to do it?”

“…”

]]> By: Alan K. Henderson https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/10/corporate-personhood-enemy/comment-page-1/#comment-242933 Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:40:22 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=42160#comment-242933 I have a different take on the issue: if X is a right, and Y is a lawful tool, the government has no authority to prohibit the use of Y for the purpose of X. Incorporation is a tool, an abstract one. It may be lawfully employed to further religious expression, speech, press, redress of grievances, peaceable assembly, rights enumerated by statute or by the Declaration of Independence, etc.

]]> By: Jay Markowitz https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/10/corporate-personhood-enemy/comment-page-1/#comment-242925 Mon, 28 Oct 2013 05:44:04 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=42160#comment-242925 i inevitably get blank stares whenever i come across someone on an anti-CU rant and i inform them of the ACLU’s support of that decision and why.

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