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madamesilverspurs
Jul 2014
OP
Corporations can neither be born or naturalized as citizens, so the 14th seems crystal clear about
Fred Sanders
Jul 2014
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etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)1. Unfortunately, with this court, corporate "personhood" ...
trumps individual human beings (especially women) every time
delrem
(9,688 posts)6. Yes. This makes no sense to me.
How can the USA, a country of such power and presence in the world, have such a retrograde Supreme Court that it can't make the simple distinction between corporate (as in legal corporations) and physical (as in born a human) personhood?
It's a fucking disgrace!
sheshe2
(83,708 posts)2. Unless they are women...
because the men on the Supreme Court consider us property and not a person.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)3. Corporations can neither be born or naturalized as citizens, so the 14th seems crystal clear about
who people are.
redruddyred
(1,615 posts)5. according to the documentary "the corporation",
this amendment has been abused repeatedly since the latter half of the 19th century.
funny, 'cause I thought the text was clear enough.
redruddyred
(1,615 posts)4. needs to be amended to
"all natural persons".
although one would hope that the word "born" would take care of that one.
delrem
(9,688 posts)7. Nothing takes care of the wilful misreading of sentences.
And that's what you in the USA are up against, when you contest your Supreme Court.