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The amazing true story of a legal 'corporate person' fiction that undermines American democracy.
Oct 22, 2009

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How Corporations Became 'Persons'



The amazing true story of a legal fiction that undermines American democracy.



http://www.uuworld.org/2003/03/feature1a.html
http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/personhood/

END CORPORATE "PERSONHOOD"
http://www.change.org/ideas/view_idea/end_corporate_personhood

Group challenges corporate personhood in Supreme Court
http://elitestv.com/pub/2009/08/group-challenges-corporate-personhood-in-supreme-court


Sotomayor challenges corporate personhood
Sotomayor Issues Challenge to Centuries of Corporate Law
http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=4960
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Posted: Thursday October 22, 2009, 11:11 am
Tags: common law person good public democracy greed legal lobbyists profit corporations takeover status selfish undermine [add/edit tags]

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