Has there been an actual Extreme Court ruling that said Corporations are the same as people?

[Toots]

I heard from somewhere that it came from a staffers notes, but has there ever been a ruling stating it?

[Orrex]

1. I believe that was "Corporations v. Fuck You, America"

[FreakinDJ]

2. 1907 ruling by a Federal Judge that has set precedence

that is the ruling that needs to be overturned

[Javaman]

8. No, that was the ruling that limited corporate spending...

which this current ruling effectively overturned.

The person-ship ruling was from 1886, look to the next post for a better explanation.

[ananda]

3. Yes. Way back

http://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate_accountability/history_corporations_us.html

" One of the most severe blows to citizen authority arose out of the 1886 Supreme Court case of Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad. Though the court did not make a ruling on the question of "corporate personhood," thanks to misleading notes of a clerk, the decision subsequently was used as precedent to hold that a corporation was a "natural person."

From that point on, the 14th Amendment, enacted to protect rights of freed slaves, was used routinely to grant corporations constitutional "personhood." Justices have since struck down hundreds of local, state and federal laws enacted to protect people from corporate harm based on this illegitimate premise. Armed with these "rights," corporations increased control over resources, jobs, commerce, politicians, even judges and the law.

A United States Congressional committee concluded in 1941, "The principal instrument of the concentration of economic power and wealth has been the corporate charter with unlimited power...." "

[Orrex]

4. Terrific post!

Very succinct.

:thumbsup:

[Toots]

5. Yes that is what I was referring to, A Clerk's Notes

But has it officially been decided in the Court itself? I understand because of those Clerk's notes they went forward and acted upon the assumption but has the Legal issue ever really been either tested or declared?

[meow2u3]

6. Obama should nominate Supreme Court justices who'd overturn this disastrous decision

...that the Extreme Court activists made.

Corporations are slaves according to a strict interpetation of the 13th Amendment

People own corporations not only through the legal process of incorporation, but also, in the case of public corporations, through the shares of stock they own; therefore, corporations are technically slaves. The only problem is that in practice, the slave has become the master of the entire United States of America, effectively owning Congress and the Courts, if not the entire world. Even foreign corporations are dictating to ordinary Americans.

[FreakinDJ]

7. Excellent link

Thanks for the correction