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Corporations definitely count as legal persons, with obligations and rights.

This gave us the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310, i case on their right to speech or place funds.

>>eftych+(OP)
> Corporations definitely count as legal persons, with obligations and rights.

I am not a lawyer, I am cynical

Corporations count as legal persons when it benefits them

>>eftych+(OP)
It even predates Citizens United, 1 U.S. Code § 1 (introduced by The Dictionary Act in 1871) defines Corporations as people.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/1/1

>>stalle+Vq
> even predates Citizens United

It goes back to 1886 [1]. Ditching corporate personhood just makes the law convoluted for no gain. (Oh, you forgot to say corporations in your murder or fraud statute? Oh no!)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood

>>worik+42
True. When’s the last time a corporation had to go to prison.

>>eftych+(OP)
It gives rights, not obligations, which makes Citizens United so abhorrent. It's a dark money vehicle, and worse - foreign dark money. Just on the face of it its ridiculous, but alas, laws are made by the ultra rich.

A corporation has the right to "speech" but if crimes are committed, rest assured it will not go to jail, and neither will its executives, protected by layers of legal indirection of this "person corporation".