Democracy Theme Park

Corporate “Personhood”

  • Decommissioning Corporate “Magic”

    Would you like to neutralize corporations’ ability to get so many GOOD laws declared unconstitutional? There’s an “app” for that—-an approach, that is.

  • Corporate “Personhood” Must Be Challenged (2009)

    When the “Hillary Clinton film” case is decided, headlines should declare, “Supreme Court affirms corporate personhood.” Instead, most media will call it a free speech decision. “First Amendment rights” will play the Trojan horse hauling corporate freight.

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

    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 dropped on your own…

  • Strip Corporations of their Cloaking Devices (1996)

    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 such cases are most often…

  • Stone Soup, Democracy Salad, Just Desserts (1997)

    Centuries ago, Sir John Culpepper 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; they sit by our fire… What gives “democracy” such a bad name?…

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