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Originally Posted by Botnst
No takers for #9?
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I have never read the Citzens United case, so I don't really know what the true issue was, but it has been commonplace in the law to define "person" to include corporations and other entities. The Virginia Code, for example, defines the term as follows:
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§ 1-230. Person. "Person" includes any individual, corporation, partnership, association, cooperative, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, government, political subdivision, or any other legal or commercial entity and any successor, representative, agent, agency, or instrumentality thereof.
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I don't know when they started using that definition. It's been there as long as I can remember. It is quite a leap, though, to go from that sort of legal definition to the conclusion that corporations have First Amendment rights.