Corporate Personhood
by A. Richard Miller
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(This web page was the MMS "Extra Feature" for the first half of March 2011.)

For March, the MMS "Extra Feature" opens with a little super-politics. Corporate Personhood surpasses politics; it threatens the American and democratic society in which we've grown.

Let Annie Leopold, the creator of "The Story of Stuff", explain in ten minutes or less why a Corporation is not a Person. If only she'd explained it to the U.S. Supreme Court! View "The Story of Citizens United Vs. The FEC":
http://storyofstuff.org/citizensunited/

We add these two quotations.

First, at the founding of our United States of America:
I hope we shall crush...in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
        -- Thomas Jefferson

Over two hundred years later, repeating Jefferson's warning:
Corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of human beings, to be sure, and their 'personhood' often serves as a useful legal fiction. But they are not themselves members of 'We the People' by whom and for whom our Constitution was established.
        -- John Paul Stevens, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Hoping for a return to better values for our country and our world,
--Dick and Jill Miller, Partners, MMS <TheMillers@millermicro.com>