# Corporate personhood

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corporate-personhood/526159>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [January 23, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corporate-personhood/526159 "2010-01-23T20:28:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![maxh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@maxh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maxh)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corporate-personhood/526159/1 "2010-01-23T20:28:15Z")

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> **[How can a corporation be legally considered a person?](https://www.straightdope.com/21343602/how-can-a-corporation-be-legally-considered-a-person)**

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> But it’d be nice to have a clear-cut ruling, say, that limiting campaign contributions by big businesses doesn’t mean you’re restricting their First Amendment rights.

_Crap._

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**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corporate-personhood/526159/2 "2010-01-24T02:28:06Z")

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**maxh** , this is a discussion forum. It’s not an exclamation forum.

Discuss what you wish. Leave the one-word posts for other places.

If you feel the ruling is crap, let us know why you think that way. I’m going to leave this open and hope you come back to elaborate. If not. I’ll close this tomorrow.

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**Author:** ![maxh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@maxh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maxh)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corporate-personhood/526159/3 "2010-01-24T02:31:19Z")

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Ah, sorry. Go ahead and just delete it; I’ll move over to the debate thread.

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**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corporate-personhood/526159/4 "2010-01-25T09:07:18Z")

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Closed, then.

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