...corporate
personhood is a real scandal...the meaning of the
14th Amendment was expanded so that 'person' included
corporations, and over the years corporations have
gotten rights that are way beyond those of persons
of flesh and blood...there's plenty of anti-corporate
feeling in the country but it's unfocused... a constitutional
amendment would be a great idea... there has to
be a lot of organizing and educational work to build
up a major groundwell of support which will call
for restoring the 14th Amendment to what the words
say...the idea that a corporation should be given
personal rights is a major attack on classical liberal
doctrines which held that rights inhere in 'persons'
- persons of flesh and blood, not collectivist legal
entities established by state power...
-- Noam
Chomsky
