USA: GLOBAL JUSTICE
Dec 21 2002
Corporate "Personhood" Confronted in US
The struggle to halt the complete corporate takeover of the US had a recent
victory in the state of Pennsylvania. Officials of Porter Township, Clarion
County, north of Pittsburgh became the first local government in the United
States to eliminate corporate claims to constitutional privileges. A
questionable interpretation of an 1886 US Supreme Court ruling gave
corporations the same constitutional rights as private citizens by defining
them as legal persons. "Corporations were conceded personhood, and a long
list of civil and political rights such as free speech, and property
rights, the right to define and control investment, production, and the
organization of work." said Richard Grossman of the Program on
Corporations, Law & Democracy (POCLAD) in a history of corporate hegemony.
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