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eniwetok

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4. sure... but that's a narrow approach to a bigger problem
Tue Apr 11, 2017, 09:55 AM
Apr 2017

Sure, I fully approve of the Move To Amend amendment though I worry about how some wording is not precise enough. The amendment needs more of a preface such as in that quote from Justice Stevens

". . . corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of human beings, to be sure, and their 'personhood' often serves as a useful legal fiction. But they are not themselves members of “We the People” by whom and for whom our Constitution was established."



But we had plenty of problems with the corporate form LONG before that 2010 decision in large part because corporations largely exist because of state law not federal law. And it must include provisions to deal with regulatory capture... perhaps that any and all communication between corporations and public officials MUST be done in a public forum.

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