Under U.S. law, some essential rights of the 14th amendment belong not only to American citizens, but also corporations—thanks to a few key Supreme Court cases and a controversial legal concept known as corporate personhood.
How the 14th Amendment Made Corporations Into ‘People’
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‘Corporations Are People’ Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie
Organized workers, often defying their timid union leadership, are on the march across the United States.
America’s New Class War
How Trump’s Legal Challenges of the Election Results Turned into a Tax-Deductible ‘Coup’
“Petitioners do not disclose that their request is part of a coordinated effort launched this week to ‘file federal and state lawsuits challenging the presidential election results in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, Georgia, and Arizona,’” the Democratic National Committee wrote in response to one such legal blitz by the Thomas More Society, a not-for-profit religious group.
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Corporate America’s deal with the Devil
I suspect that when those people read about a bunch of multinational CEOs getting together to throw around their political weight, a good chunk of them would likely think something along the lines of: “It’s true! There is a cabal of wealthy and powerful people running the country and they have influence that I don’t. They are the ones thwarting democracy.”
Sadly, they wouldn’t be delusional to think so. Anyone with a pulse knows that in the US today the system is rigged in favour of the wealthy and powerful. One particularly illuminating paper published this month by the Institute for New Economic Thinking quantifies the problem. Building on a persuasive 2014 data set, it shows that when opinion shifts among the wealthiest top 10 per cent of the US population, changes in policy become far more likely.
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 
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