Reply #32: Not quite true!

[NoNothing]

Note the First Amendment specifically mentions "Congress" and thus originally only applied to the federal government.

It was the 14th Amendment that required these rights to apply against state and local governments as well.

Ironically, it was the original "corporate personhood" headnote that applied the 14th to corporations.

So if you are correct, and corporations do not have any natural rights, (excepting "the press" because it was specifically mentioned) that still means that New York could shut down the NYT. Just the U.S. Congress could not.