In my experience, the best resource bar none on corporate personhood and
its disastrous effects on American society is the Program on Corporations,
Law & Democracy. You can check them out at
I have
attended several POCLAD conferences, and read many of their
publications. I cannot recommend them highly enough.
Arthur Clark
At 04:11 PM 1/16/01 -0800, you wrote:
John Tinker wrote:
No, companies are limited liability constructs of
the state. They fall
under the same social contract that the state does, even more so. Yes,
we can, and should, insist that corporations be ethical. The nature of
a corporation's "rights" is quite different than the nature of an
individual's rights.
Unfortunately, the U.S. courts have "legislated" that corporations are
"artificial persons", and have the rights thereof. This has caused lots
of problems.
There are people tring to get this fixed. The proposed Citizen's
Sovereignty Amendment would eliminate this nonsense, and return to the
states (under the 10th Amendment) the right to regulate corporations:
http://28th.org/
[Personally I don't think it has a snowball's chance in hell of getting
passed and ratified, but it's a worthy cause.]