# Supreme court, the big story of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 9, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-the-big-story-of-the-day/509427 "2009-09-09T14:48:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 30
**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-the-big-story-of-the-day/509427/30 "2009-09-09T21:10:02Z")
> [@Does the first amendment really let corporations buy elections?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-first-amendment-really-let-corporations-buy-elections/507690/63): > > For anyone actually interested, here is the [Timeline of Personhood Rights and Powers, by Jan Edwards et al](http://www.ratical.org/corporations/ToPRaP.html)"]timeline of the Supremes’ rulings on corporate personhood. Corporate “personhood” is entirely a creation of SCOTUS’s interpretation of what? Not [the US Constitution nor its 27 amendments](http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html) in which the word “corporation” does not appear once . Before the Civil War, southern agricultural capital gave counterweight to northern industrial and the South had a fair hand in composing the SC. The question of corporate personhood began to arise post-bellum after the USG was firmly in the hands of northern banks and industrial interests and in [1889](http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=129&invol=26) the SC finally ruled that corporations are people. Oh, the irony of it all. The corporation “lost” the suit but for the price of 3 hogs, ($24 … where has that number appeared before?) corporations were awarded personhood. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-the-big-story-of-the-day/509427)._