Chris Chester’s Reviews > Corporations Are Not People: Reclaiming Democracy from Big Money and Global Corporations > Status Update

Calling for a 28th Amendment to the Constitution, citing six previous amendments where the people determined that the Supreme Court landed on the side of moneyed interests.

Corporations can have no virtue, because they are just tools. Unless specifically designed to do otherwise, they will circumvent the law and public good if it satisfies their underlying goal.

Their strengths are privileges that should be able to be revoked, not rights of the sort accorded to people.

Corporations are the largest donors, and their money gets them legislation that essentially hands them money, increasing national debt.

Corporations are only metaphorical persons, created as instruments of governments... or the Delaware government, anyway. Therefor, except where it benefits the public good, they should not be granted the rights of actual persons.

Let me remind you all the ways corporations suck: they block legislation banning smoking and advertising cigarettes to kids; they refuse to label their shitty food; they hijack the process of education; they steal money through for-profit schools.

I don't appreciate that he's trotting out the puppy dogs and kittens of corporate victims, but I take the larger point.

Clements pegs the birth of the corporatist legal movement on Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell.