Published in the Mankato Free Press
MANKATO — In Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company (1886), the concept of corporate personhood was accidentally and benignly (at that time) inserted into the U.S. Supreme Court canon of judicial decisions. No less than a Frankenstein’s monster has evolved from that seemingly minor insertion.
It is quite clear that the 5-4 decision of the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission even further establishes levels of “free speech”, allocating more power to the few individuals who control corporations and labor unions and, by consequence, allowing less to everyone else, especially employees and stockholders of corporations and members of labor unions who may disagree with the political stance of those corporate and union leaders.
Under the false guise of judicial conservatism, the court has in fact acted just the opposite. Nowhere do the words “corporation” or “labor union” or any phrase or words approximating them appear in the Constitution. And yet, now five members of the current sitting Supreme Court have decided that these institutions “de jure” have the same rights as individuals while “de facto” it is no secret they will have more.
It is a shame and travesty to the intentions of our Founding Fathers.
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