How do you know if a corporation is American or a foreign national?

[Fresh_Start]

is there a birth certificate? if so, how do you know if they renounce their american citizenship in pursuit of tax savings in other countries?

If the major stock/bond holders are foreigners, does it matter where the company is incorporated?
What if the CEO is not an American?
What if the BODs are not Americans?

How exactly do you keep foreign money/foreign influence out of elections when corporate money's can be influenced by non-American interests?

[ithinkmyliverhurts]

1. Why does it matter?

People are people, my friend.

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. I get your point; but ...

There is no such animal as an "American Corporation", only corporations chartered and/or domiciled in America.

Corporations have no loyalty to any nation-state; rather, they send their jobs to low wage/low regulation nation-states, they send their revenues to low tax nation-states, and they send their executives to the U.S., where the American public pays to protect their lives and lifestyles.

[Spazito]

3. Since the Citizens United decision...

you can't tell, imo, not really.

[dipsydoodle]

4. Assume

the country on whose stock exchange they are listed.

Actual shareholders can change like the weather.

[oldhippie]

5. How about going to Yahoo Finance or ....

... Morningstar.com and looking it up?

It ain't that hard.