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dilby

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17. The First Amendment should also cover Collectives of People

Reply to Nye Bevan (Original post)

Tue Apr 8, 2014, 04:22 PM

Apr 2014

When you have more than one person who are a collective their voice should be heard and they should not be quieted. I fear that having it only cover an individual or press will be used to destroy unions.

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Should only "natural persons" and the press have First Amendment rights? [View all] Nye Bevan Apr 2014 OP

There are many options between those two extremes. Xipe Totec Apr 2014 #1

+1 TDale313 Apr 2014 #4

Corporations Are People, My Friend Ohio Joe Apr 2014 #2

Thats the wrong way to look at it IMO. beevul Apr 2014 #3

Hey, what about us "unnatural persons"? genwah Apr 2014 #5

Do we alert just for "funzies" these days? Really? Tarheel_Dem Apr 2014 #6

Thanks! (but juror #6 has made me a little sad) Nye Bevan Apr 2014 #12

I wasn't #6. Like most, I didn't comment, because I thought the alert was ridiculous. Tarheel_Dem Apr 2014 #14

That's the way juries work, sadly. lumberjack_jeff Apr 2014 #16

i think a bigger issue is whether money=speech La Lioness Priyanka Apr 2014 #7

There's a reason The Press is the only business mentioned by name in the Constitution. Octafish Apr 2014 #8

I've not seen the threads on this debate BainsBane Apr 2014 #9

How does one define "the press"? onenote Apr 2014 #10

I'm not sure. I think corporations should have restrictions - for example, honesty closeupready Apr 2014 #11

I think unnatural persons should have equal access to the same imaginary constructs as the rest of u LanternWaste Apr 2014 #13

For that matter, Democratic Underground LLC is not a natural person. lumberjack_jeff Apr 2014 #15

The First Amendment should also cover Collectives of People dilby Apr 2014 #17