Delaware is home to more corporations than people. Human people, that is, as under longstanding state law and the US Supreme Court’s infamous 2010 ruling, corporations are people, too.
A judge in Delaware—a state with more registered business entities than people—ruled Monday in favor of a small town that allows corporations to vote in local elections.
Delaware Superior Court Judge Craig Karsnitz ruled that the town of Fenwick Island, population 400, did not violate the state Constitution by permitting business entities—which make up 12% of the town’s “population”—to vote in municipal elections, as case plaintiff the ACLU of Delaware had claimed.
“What is a ‘person?’ When one cuts to the heart of this case, that is the question,” Karsnitz wrote to open his 20-page ruling.
Does this mean that a company that outcompetes another into dissolving can be accused of manslaughter?
If money is speech why can’t you pay rent with poem?
SCOTUS has sided with businesses regarding personhood since the 14th amendment was passed. Citizens United wasn’t an isolated incident.
Yeah Leeja Miller went over this on her channel. Apparently one of the writers of the 14th lied and told the courts that they always was thinking of businesses when they wrote the amendment. Of course he was the only survivoring member at the time so no one could dispute him. All goes back to that court case. Its fucked always has been.
This is insane:
“According to the law, a person is anyone or anything that can initiate and be subject to legal proceedings.
This is turning things totally on it’s head. Companies are defined as legal persons exactly so they can be sued, and are responsible to the law. Not the other way around.
By this standard a company that doesn’t make money should also have the right to social welfare, and when it gets old to receive a pension.
This is absolute madness, and in no way within what it means to be a legal person in any civilized country.
A legal person does not have for instance citizenship, a legal person does not have human rights, and maybe most importantly a legal person cannot go to jail. Only REAL people can do those things.
The reason it’s called a “legal” person is exactly because it is not a REAL person, and for instance doesn’t have a right to vote, because a legal person is not a citizen.USA is such a shitty and insane country it’s impossible to put into a few words exactly how bad it is.
So if I start up a thousand businesses in town I can make myself mayor?
Jim Crow laws against working class next Delaware? Unironically the real great replacement theory is just rich fucks signing a stack of forms.
