Groups Look to Reign in Corporate Power After Citizens United
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/09/19-5
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Corporations are not people
In These Times
by Joel Bleifuss
The Supreme Court began endowing corporations with the rights of people in 1886 with Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company. This slow slide was a radical departure from the Declaration of Independence under which people are 'endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights' - rights enumerated in the Constitution...
http://tinyurl.com/3q9j3wv
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Citizens+United+Ruling
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Supreme+Court
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Constitution
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Declaration+of+Independence
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=corporat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Eartha+Jane+Melzer
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Joel+Bleifuss
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Corporations are not people
In These Times
by Joel Bleifuss
The Supreme Court began endowing corporations with the rights of people in 1886 with Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company. This slow slide was a radical departure from the Declaration of Independence under which people are 'endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights' - rights enumerated in the Constitution...
http://tinyurl.com/3q9j3wv
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Citizens+United+Ruling
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Supreme+Court
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Constitution
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Declaration+of+Independence
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=corporat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Eartha+Jane+Melzer
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Joel+Bleifuss
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Starmail - 20. Sep, 05:57
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