5 Comments

Excellent explanation of how American corporations perversely became endowed as "corporate persons", and the tragic consequences for "natural" persons, non-human life, and the planet.

Expand full comment

Beautifully elucidated!

Can someone with Gandhi-level legal inventiveness not find a way to overturn the original sin of the 14th?

Expand full comment

Funny enough, this translates perfectly to other countries where corporations have taken over and use their money and influence to take over governments. My country Peru is going through that right now... I might start tracing back and figure out how did we end up in the same situation you perfectly explained

Expand full comment

So what do we do!??? Awesome article

Expand full comment
author

repeal those three laws for starters, then fix gerrymandering and electoral college, go for stack ranked preference voting and supermajority policy platforms and see how we do from there?

Expand full comment