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Re:Rising Rents Are Pushing More Tenants Past the Breaking P... by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday October 26, 2017 @09:32PM (#15564886)
In English common law corporations are people, hence the name. They are a synthetic "body" for business purposes. This isn't a new concept created by Citizens United.
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Re:Rising Rents Are Pushing More Tenants Past the Breaking P... by jacques_chester on Friday October 27, 2017 @07:28AM (#15567372)
It's usually better to say that they have "legal personality". They're not people, but like people, or charities, incorporated associations etc, they have an attribute that gives them legal existence a court will recognise.

What Citizens United established was that free speech applied to legal personality generally, not humans in particular. Folk forget that this includes organisations they like, as well as the many they don't. It's easy to dislike the situation (as I do), but trickier to explain how to define a way out of it.

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