Corporate “Personhood”

(Citizens United) Court’s Campaign Money Ruling Is a Red Herring (2010)

by Jane Anne Morris Before running off trying to counter the recent Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (FEC), we ought to sort out what this decision does and does not do. The Citizens United decision does make our democracy theme park a little worse, the way having an atomic bomb …

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Strip Corporations of their Cloaking Devices (1996)

By Jane Anne Morris   Who spends the most time in federal courts complaining that their “due process” and “equal protection under the law” rights have been violated? Pushy women? Uppity Blacks? Gray Panthers? Illegal Mexicans? The Sandhill Crane Militia? HIV-positive Navy gunners? You really don’t know, do you? None of the above. Plaintiffs in …

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Stone Soup, Democracy Salad, Just Desserts (1997)

By Jane Anne Morris   Centuries ago, Sir John Colepepper said of the “corporations” of his day, Like the frogs of Egypt, they have gotten possession of our dwellings and we have scarcely a room free from them; they sip in our cup; they dip in our dish; [and] they sit by our fire. Today, …

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