Only living persons are entitled to constitutional rights

[gotsnowgotslush]

Only living persons are entitled to constitutional rights — not corporations!

Ratify a new amendment to the constitution!

(The last amendment to be ratified — in 1992 — was first proposed in 1789. It took 203 years until it was written into the Constitution.)

12/02/2011

Move To Amend, has started an online petition to push the resolution from city councils to Congress.
The group contends that the 2010 Supreme Court Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
decision should be declared unconstitutional.

“Corporations are people, my friend."
-Mitt Romney

http://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/html/amdt9_user.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...nal-amendment/2011/12/02/gIQAz999LO_blog.html

 

[RightField]

Only living persons are entitled to constitutional rights — not corporations!

Ratify a new amendment to the constitution!

(The last amendment to be ratified — in 1992 — was first proposed in 1789. It took 203 years until it was written into the Constitution.)

12/02/2011

Move To Amend, has started an online petition to push the resolution from city councils to Congress.
The group contends that the 2010 Supreme Court Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
decision should be declared unconstitutional.

“Corporations are people, my friend."
-Mitt Romney

http://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/html/amdt9_user.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...nal-amendment/2011/12/02/gIQAz999LO_blog.html

If you make the presumption that only living persons are allowed to vote, you're going to wipe out 1/3 of the total democrat voters, many of which have been deceased for decades.

 

[RobDownSouth]

If you make the presumption that only living persons are allowed to vote, you're going to wipe out 1/3 of the total democrat voters, many of which have been deceased for decades.

I know it's an article of faith among low-information types like Right Field that Democrats vote in large numbers after they die, but I keep challenging someone to prove that this has happened in large numbers since Kennedy-Nixon over 50 years...a half-century!...ago.

Vetty likes to bring up B-1 Bob Dornan's loss to Sanchez back in the 1990s, but nobody ever found conclusive proof, and Dornan was "factually challenged" for years.

Most recently, their were widespread allegations of the dead voting in South Carolina. They found one guy who voted by absentee ballot three weeks before the election but keeled over dead from a heart attack the day before the election (His vote counted) and they found an anomaly in the South Carolina voting rolls....when John Doe Senior and John Doe Junior live at the same address, and Senior passes away, unless Junior specifically signs his ballot as Junior, Senior is marked as having voted by default. They found this in 3 separate instances.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Let me get this train wreck back on track. Now I have tried over the years to figure out what the female Drown was trying to say, and this would be one of those occasions. So PLEASE Ms. thread starter, can you answer in complete sentances with well formed paragraphs? I don't have my looney-tunes decoder ring on at the moment.


If a corporation has no constitutional rights, can they enter into contracts? Can they sue and be sued? Can they advertise? Or perhaps you have a tribunal set up to review all communications offered by a corporation for violations of some political message ban?

The simple fact of the matter is, the Supreme Court got the case right, and Romney was correct, as a legal matter, in stating that corporations are people. They are given a distinct legal personhood by statute, and that's the way it's been for over 100 years.

The only issue that has brought this to the fore, is the fact that the content of some corporate speech was found politically offensive. No one has gone to court saying they don't have to pay for their car because Ford has no legal authority to contract.